Lewis & Clark | Sacagawea & Daniel Boone (Part 2)

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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One aspect of the Lewis and Clark expedition that’s often overlooked is that much of their success hinged largely on the good graces of the various Indigenous people on whose land they were crossing. Today, as we follow the expedition up Missouri, we’ll take a look at several such encounters, first with the Oto and Missouri tribes, then Arikara, the Yankton, and finally a near-disastrous confrontation with the Lakota – one that had the potential to significantly alter history as we know it. We’ll also examine the Corp of Discovery’s time among the Mandan, a possible meeting with the legendary Daniel Boone, and introduce a young girl who turned out to be one of the most valuable members of the expedition – a teenage mother known as Sacagawea. By the way, how exactly is her name pronounced? And was she really Shoshone? This is PART 2 in a series on Lewis and Clark - link down below for PART 1! Part 1 in the Lewis & Clark series - https://www.wildwestextra.com/lewis-clark-the-corps-of-discovery-part-1/ Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Hugh Glass - https://www.wildwestextra.com/hugh-glass-frontiersman/ Jim Bridger | Ashley’s 100 - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-ashleys-100/ Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose - https://www.amazon.com/Undaunted-Courage-Meriwether-Jefferson-American/dp/0684826976 Journals of Lewis & Clark - https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, one aspect of the Lewis and Clark expedition that, in my opinion, is often overlooked,
0:04.9	is the fact that much of their success largely hinged on the good graces of the various indigenous peoples on whose land they were crossing.
0:12.6	Today, we'll take a look at several such encounters.
0:15.6	First with the Odo and Missouri tribes, then the Yankton, the Rickera, and finally, a near disastrous confrontation
0:22.2	with the Lakota, one that had the potential of greatly altering history as we know it.
0:27.5	We'll also examine whether or not the Corps of Discovery met with the great Daniel Boone.
0:32.3	We'll take a look at their time among the Mandan, as well as introducing a young girl
0:36.4	who turned out to be one of the most
0:38.0	valuable members of the expedition, a teenage mother known as Sakajua. Or is it Sakagawiya?
0:44.9	How the hell do you pronounce her name? And was she really, Shishone? We're going to discuss that
0:50.3	too. We got a lot of ground to cover, so let's just get right down to it. My name's Josh,
0:55.4	and this is the Wild West extravaganza. Believe it or not, the Lewis and Clark expedition was
1:09.3	nearly over before it even really got started.
1:12.2	On May 23rd, 1804, just two days after leaving St. Charles,
1:16.8	Captain Meriwether Lewis was walking along the riverbank when he slipped off a rock overhang
1:21.2	and nearly plunged 300 feet to his death.
1:24.3	As it were, he was able to catch himself, quote,
1:26.9	with the assistance of his knife,
1:29.0	end quote, and climb back to safety. I wish I knew more about what happened, but that's literally all
1:35.0	that we know, that he caught himself with the assistance of his knife. Hell, Louis Dutt even
1:39.7	mentioned it at all in his journal, and Clark only devoted two sentences to the entire ordeal.
1:44.9	This lack of information would be a frustrating reoccurrence throughout the entire expedition,
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