The reason I'm putting this story on here is that I just recently visited his grave.
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was youngest of the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Born to Sacagawea and Toussaint Charboneau at Fort Mandan (North Dakota) On February 11, 1805. Educated by Captain William Clark at St. Louis. Baptiste at age 18 travelled to Europe where he spent six years becoming fluent in English, German, French and Spanish. Returning to America in 1825, he ranged the far west for nearly four decades, as mountain man, guide, interpreter, magistrate and forty-niner. In 1866 he left the California goldfields for a new strike in Montana. He contracted pneumonia enroute and died at Inkskips Ranche on May 16, 1866.
There is also a book about him called "Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Man of Two Worlds" by, Michael Lance Ritter. Visit his website at www.jeanbaptistecharbonneau.com
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