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Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo
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Sacajawea (original 1978; edition 1980)

by Anna Lee Waldo, Pon Ruiter

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Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation. She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the Pacific Northwest, her story over flows with emotion and action ripped from the bursting fabric of a raw new land. Ten years in the writing, SACAJAWEA unfolds an immense canvas of people and events, and captures the eternal longings of a woman who always yearned for one great passion -- and always it lay beyond the next mountain.… (more)
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Title:Sacajawea
Authors:Anna Lee Waldo
Other authors:Pon Ruiter
Info:Amsterdam [etc.] : Elsevier; 912 p, 23 cm; http://opc4.kb.nl/DB=1/PPN?PPN=802591957
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Sacajawea by Anna L. Waldo (1978)

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I read this book many years ago and recently found it stored with other books. I remember being touched by the story and learning so much about a great woman. (If I didn't have so many books on my "to read" list, I would read it again.) ( )
  LuLibro | Jan 22, 2024 |
A re-read of an old favorite from my early teens. ( )
  Kiri | Dec 24, 2023 |
Amazing.. I was blown away with this history lesson. ( )
  MariaStroud | Aug 25, 2023 |
very good and long book
is a true story ( )
  KimSalyers | Oct 1, 2016 |
I loved the first half of this book, the fictional account of Sacajawea's part in the Lewis & Clark expedition. It's a tremendous saga. The second half is more speculative, less exciting, but the first half is worth five stars. I later read a historical account of the expedition by Steven Ambrose, "Undaunted Courage," which was more about Lewis and Clark and less about Sacajawea. It gave me another picture of what the expedition was like. All in all, a fascinating subject. ( )
  fromthecomfychair | Feb 11, 2016 |
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The tropical emotion that has created a legendary Sacajawea awaits study by some connoisseur of American Sentiments.--More statues have been erected to her than to any other American woman. Few others have had so much sentimental fantasy expended on them. --And the has received what in the United States counts a canonization if not deification: she has become an object of state pride and interstate rivalry.

Bernard DeVoto, The Course of Empire
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In memory of my father,
Lee William Van Artsdale
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It was early morning in the Agaiduka, the Salmon Eaters encampment, and struggling puffs of cooking-fire smoke reached into the chilly dawn air.
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Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation. She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the Pacific Northwest, her story over flows with emotion and action ripped from the bursting fabric of a raw new land. Ten years in the writing, SACAJAWEA unfolds an immense canvas of people and events, and captures the eternal longings of a woman who always yearned for one great passion -- and always it lay beyond the next mountain.

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