in the map with american ideas about all of these missouri pretty easy job of it and then get into montana things get a little tricky so the corps expedition becomes known they will meet and in a variety of a frenchman namd toussaint charbonneau and his young. she was probably about 16 when they married maybe 14 wife chicago heir who was a shoshone woman who had been kidnaped or sold to the hidatsa,4% who are part of the mandan indian nation. as a young and traded to them, charbonneau was a■épp frenchmana french trader, a french national who married several indian, many sort of and had several at the same time sort of over the course of his life. but skagway will accompany the expedition. it leaves fort mandan, which kind of up there in north dakota, the middle of north dakota today, and go with to the pacific coast, the first winter in february 1805, while expedition is wintering at the small installation they build on the missouri river called fort. so kagawa gives birth to a son, jean-baptiste charbonneau, who goes to the pacific with the expedition as a baby who is nicknamed pomp or