Along the Upper Missouri River on the Northern Pacific Railway below the “Three Forks.”
prosperity and history of the country that this band of explorers so faithfully served. Aside from the leaders there were some intrepid spirits in that exploring band. Among the more noted and worthy were Sergeant Gass, John Colter, George Drewye—or Drouillard more correctly—George Shannon, the Fields brothers, and Sacáigawea, the Shoshone Indian woman, who was both guide and interpreter at certain stages of the journey and who carried a boy papoose from Fort Mandan to the Coast and back again.
Sacáigawea, the Birdwoman, stands out in a peculiarly strong and striking way and invests the exploration with a tinge or flavor that would be sadly lacking were it not for her sturdy, wholesome, virtuous personality. Her white sisters of the Northwest purpose to honor her virtues and sacrifices by a statue at the exposition.
The route of the expedition coincided at many points with that of the Northern Pacific Railway, either on its17
