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Women of the West
She Was Never a Guide

by Chip Schweiger June 2, 2026

The real story of Sacajawea is more complicated than the frontier mythology that followed. The journals of Lewis and Clark reveal not a triumphant pathfinder, but a young Shoshone woman navigating captivity, survival, and a continent in transition.

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