Sacagawea did not guide the Lewis and Clark expedition, as your story about the new dollar states. In Lewis and Clark’s journals, I find no instance where she directed or advised their course.
Sacagawea perhaps saved the expedition a few beads when trading for horses with her
brother in the Lemhi Valley of Idaho. Other than that, there is no contemporary record of her
influence, Disney and the U.S.
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