![]() After she successfully guided Clark’s group through the Rocky Mountains using a route known today as Bozeman Pass, he had high praise indeed. Her intimate knowledge of the difficult terrain also proved invaluable. One of their own, the thinking went-especially a woman carrying an infant son on her back-surely couldn’t signify a war party. Just as important, if not more so, was Sacagawea’s likely calming effect on the Native Americans they encountered. The couple’s combined language skills would prove beneficial to Lewis and Clark, allowing the expeditioners to communicate with tribes and make vital supply purchases. After being captured by the rival Hidatsa tribe at the age of 12, she later married French-Canadian fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau. READ MORE: 7 Female Adventurers Who Broke All the Rules Sacagawea: Native Guide and Translator to Lewis and Clarkīorn in 1788 or 1789, Sacagawea, a member of the Lemhi band of the Native American Shoshone tribe, lived a short but remarkably eventful life. Were it not for a small mention in Bougainville’s book, A Voyage Round the World, Baret’s remarkable seafaring achievement would certainly have slipped into oblivion, too. With Commerson often plagued by ill health, it’s believed Baret collected thousands of plant specimens on her own during the more-than-year-long undertaking, without any official recognition. In reality, Baret was Commerson’s lover-and also a skilled botanist. In February 1767, Baret, disguised as a man, climbed aboard the ship L'Étoile as an assistant to Philibert Commerson, who had been chosen as “Doctor-Botanist and Naturalist to the King” on French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s round-the-world expedition. Jeanne Baret, born in 1740 to day laborers in Burgundy, France, was a notable exception: She became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most European peasants lived, worked and died all within a day’s travel. READ MORE: What Was Life Like for Women in the Viking Age? Jeanne Baret: Botanist and High Seas Adventurer ![]()
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