That evening, Sacagawea shed the light of hope on the prospect of finally meeting her people, and securing horses for the portage over the mountains to the headwaters of the Columbia as she recognized Beaverhead Rock.
| On August 8, 1805, near today's town of Twin Bridges, Montana, the men were tediously poling their canoes up the river they called Jefferson's, which was becoming ever more crooked with Short bends a fiew Islands and maney gravelly Sholes.
That evening, Sacagawea shed the light of hope on the prospect of finally meeting her people, and securing horses for the portage over the mountains to the headwaters of the Columbia as she recognized Beaverhead Rock. |
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| Credit: The Montana Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission | |||||
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