Craig Fehrman

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 883: A New History of Lewis and Clark · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

And he's like, how can I get some of that government money for myself?

He's just the worst.

Yeah.

And so he tries to get hired.

And Lewis and Clark maybe are on the fence.

And so he's like, I have Shoshone wives.

And Lewis and Clark know that they're going to need to meet the Shoshone and maybe need some of those Shoshone horses.

So they agree to hire him and bring one of his wives with him.

Now, how do we know all this?

We know this because in the journals, Lewis and Clark write down Sacagawea's story.

When they make it back to Three Forks, they ask her, what did you see here?

What happened to you here?

And she tells them this story.

And so it's recorded in multiple journals.

But one thing that I did that was new, because I was trying to think about what did Sacagawea see?

What was her perspective, not just Lewis and Clark's, is I tried to be really forensic when I was reading the journals.

And so the first time her story shows up, it's not from Lewis and Clark.

It's from this regular working class soldier named John Ordway.

He writes about her a day before anybody else does.

And it's when they first get back to Three Forks.

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