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Lewis And Clark: A Short Story
I Come home

It was late July, we reach Sacajawea's homeland.

“Lewis, Clark, this is where I was kidnaped, I was sitting in my tent where I heard screaming. I go outside and see who was screaming, my friend was pointing to the woods, it was the Hidatsas. They took me and her and killed most but some escaped. They took me and Emma which was the girl that was captured with me.”

“We will have to buy some horses so we won’t have to walk through the mountains in the winter,” Clark says.

“We’re coming up to the Shoshoni summer camp soon,”I say to them both.

Lewis and Clark both thank me for my good memory and I say thank you. While I have my baby on my back, I was walking with Captain Clark. We were walking through a

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