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• W4205644589 abstract "here in the West_The greatest achievements in thehistory of theworld have all sprung from the imagination (pp. 159-60). In the end, it isMosher's willingness to unleash his imagination thatmakes his book succeedwhere Hall's more meticulous but stilted effortfails.Those historians who look askance at anything called historical fictionwill not be satisfied with either.Those who read history books forhistory and turn tonovels to indulge theirimaginationswill find Mosher's adventure storypleasing. Interpreterswith Lewis and Clark: The Story ofSacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau ByW. Dale Nelson University of North Texas Press, Dent?n, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 183 pages. $24.95 cloth. Reviewed byAlbert Furtwangler Salem, Oregon SACAGAWEA has become amajor symbolic figure inAmerican history.On the jacket of Interpreters with Lewis and Clark, as in many monumental paintings and statues, she is shown as a stately woman with a child on her back, pointing ahead with an outstretched arm as Lewis and Clark pay serious attention.Millions have come to recognize her as the essential guide, intermediary,and young mother who helped white men open theWest. Toussaint Charbonneau, themuch older man who fathered her child, has a much less glamorous reputation.He ischieflyremembered as a panicky boat handler on the expedition and a cookwith a recipe forbuffalo guts.Lewis wrote, him off as a a man of no peculiar merit ? especially in comparison to George Drouil lard, the indispensable interpreterand hunter in the party. Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau was born just before the expedition headed west from Fort Mandan. Over the next several months he en gaged the affectionof William Clark, who later sponsored his schooling in St. Louis and may have helped setup his years inGermany in the household of a duke who had visited theupper Missouri. W. Dale Nelson tries to present all that can be known about these threefigures ina chrono logical account that spans the years from late 1804when the explorers first met Toussaint to thedeath of Jean-Baptiste in 1866. Much ofhis information isnecessarily sketchy, derived from scatteredpassages in theexpedition journals and later records. Both the parents were illiterate, and Jean-Baptistehas left perhaps two signatures. It isonly throughothers'writings thattheycan be seen inhistorical detail. Although this is a university press book with dozens ofpages ofnotes and bibliography, Nelson makes no claims to be an original or judicious scholar.He admits inhis acknowledg ments that he owes much to more learned predecessors (p. x). Unfortunately, he does not fullyexplain or criticallyexamine the sources he relies on. His notes often lead to casual opinions, dubious secondary works, and annotations (which point toother sources) in scholarly edi tions of primary texts. He seems to have done much diligent reading, but he does not help readers see into significantproblems. For example, the name Sacagawea (or Sacajawea or Sakakawea) gets a one-paragraph treatment with a single endnote reference to ten 526 OHQ vol. 105, no. 3 sources, including two recent newspaper feature articles and two telephone interviews (pp. 11, i35m8). Sacagawea's appearance is summarized as at least fairly attractive on the basis of remarks by some travelersabout young Sho shonewomen ingeneral (p. 11).Concerning her severe illness near theMarias River, Nelson men tionsone unnamed modernmedical authority who has speculated that she had a gonorrhea infection. Such a point surely deserves fuller discussion, but it never gets it. In any case, she was badly off (p. 30).Were Charbonneau and Sacagawea married in a formal ceremony of some kind? Nelson vaguely suggests that they had a wedding, and he cites an excerpt from a Dictinnain Hishrique [sic] of 1908 found in a file of theGrace Hebard papers (p. 135/114). This isno doubt theDictionnaire Historique or Historical Dictionary ofCanadian Half-Breeds of the West (1912) cited (and quoted) inHebard's published work about Sacagawea ? butwhat is theprimary evidence on which it isbased? Does thiswork offerany new insights into theCorps ofDiscovery? In the end, Sacagawea emerges once again as a noble Shoshone lady, Charbonneau as a clumsy trader and long-lived trifler with Indian women, and their son as a man of many adventures on the trail. Nelson adds no significant information about Clark, but he introduces Lewis with an unforgettable and unforgivable flourish: From..." @default.
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