The Carlisle independent., 1909-12-30

whom the nation owes it's
 A possession of the great
 northwest-has not been written. No legends are told from mother to daughter of her patience, courage and suffering; no poet has tuned his lay to her story; history Itself does not contain her name.
 One honor has been paid her. The women of Oregon have caused to be graven in immortal bronze a statue of Sacajawea tor Sahcahgarweah) i, the bird-woman, the Sheshone prin- cess whose assistance to Lewis and Clark made possible the success of that historic expedition and unveiled to civilization a mighty empire.
 More than century ago the Sho- shones dwelt by the clear waters of the Snake river in the far northwest. The mighty and powerful Minitarees, or Blackfeet, were their dreaded ene- mics, and, at frequent intervals, swept silently and swiftly down upon them burning their villages, killing their men and carrying off their women. In
 
 about the year 1799, the Blackfeet captured and carried off Sacajawea, then girl Il or 12 years old, and with her a girl companion. who es- capped on the journey to the eastward. Her Blackfeet captors took Sacajawea to the Mandan country and sold her into slavery. She became the proper tu Of man by the name of Charbonneau, and when she reached her early teens was taken by Charbonneau as one of his squaws.
 One day in October, 1894, William Clark and Merriwether Lewis arrived at the Mandan village with an ex- ploring expedition headed for the Pa cific northwest, far beyond even the Shoshone country, and went into win ter quarters. In the spring they would push on. Sacajawea heard of it. Her husband had already been employed as interpreter. She visited Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clark early in No vember and offered to go along as a guide Her services were accepted and Charbonneau and Sacajawea now joined the white mems camp and be- came part of the expedition.
 The westward journey was begun on the first Sunday in April, 1895, the with them went Charbonneau and Cacajawea, with her two-month-old papoose strapped to her back. Thus she carried him to the waters of the Pacific ocean and back to Fort Man. dan, though a frail woman not yet IS years old.
 They made their way up the river in cottonwood canoes and at length came to Sunday island" where they anchored.
 Soon afterwards the captains named a river in her honor, the Sacajawea, now set down on the maps as Crooked creek, in Montana. Thence on to the mountains Sacajawea bore her share of the exhausting hardships. helping draw the boats along when the rapids were too powerful to be stemmed with the paddles. and often her feet were painfully bruised by the sharp stones and the prickly pear.
 Finally the woman was taken i'll with fever, and since the expedition was dependent upon her for guidance and other assistance, halt of several weeks was made until she was able to go on.
 In July the expedition camped on the very spot where Sacajawea had been captured five years before, an event which she now realistically de- scribed to her comrades. Later they came to a place called Beavers Head. which she recognized. She told the captains that it was not far from the summer residence of the Shoshones, and that she was certain that they would meet them soon. But it was not until the first days of August. aft CT many days of frightful hunger, that they reached the Lemhi, or Snake river, "a handsome, bold creek of clear water running to the westward"