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This brief profile combines an account of Sacagawea's life with a generous assortment of archival images, mostly paintings from the nineteenth century. Acknowledging the sketchy historical record (though never citing specific sources for material offered as fact), Collard's narrative highlights the basics of the Shoshone Indian's early life, including her kidnapping by rival Hidatsas, and covers her significant contributions to the Lewis and Clark expedition. A concluding note describes conflicting accounts of her death and what is known about her husband and children. The book's open design, with short paragraphs of text on solid-colored pages, is well suited to the audience, and the images illustrating each spread are large and well reproduced. However, the romantic, European perspectives of the paintings show a filtered view of Native American culture that the captions never address. Concluding with endmatter that includes a pronunciation guide for proper names and a useful resource list, this entry in the new American Heroes series is a serviceable choice for introducing Sacagawea to readers who may be encountering biographies for the first time. John Peters
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