I should say I am in error in portraying the author McClellan as less than laudatory in his writing on Sacajeweya. He is effusive in his praise. He quotes Olin D. Wheeler, who wrote, "...she proved time and again the inspiration, the genius of the occasion."
Later McClellan writes, "...she interpreted when her husband could not and at critical points gave suggestions and advice which the chivalrous captains weighed at their true value." And, "Lewis and Clark were not afraid frankly to acknowledge their debt to her and to speak most highly of her in referring to their parting at the Mandan town in 1806."
I should say I am in error in portraying the author McClellan as less than laudatory in his writing on Sacajeweya. He is effusive in his praise. He quotes Olin D. Wheeler, who wrote, "...she proved time and again the inspiration, the genius of the occasion."
Later McClellan writes, "...she interpreted when her husband could not and at critical points gave suggestions and advice which the chivalrous captains weighed at their true value." And, "Lewis and Clark were not afraid frankly to acknowledge their debt to her and to speak most highly of her in referring to their parting at the Mandan town in 1806."