The Charbonneau Arts Festival unveiled a larger-than-life bronze sculpture of Sacajawea and her young son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, on Saturday.

Explorer Sacagawea stares into the distance while Jean Baptiste Charbonneau sleeps soundly on her back. She was vital to the Lewis and Clark Expedition after the Louisiana Purchase.

It marks the grave site (click for Peter Sleeth's story in The Oregonian) of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, also known as Pomp, who joined the expedition on Feb. 11, 1805, at Fort Mandan, N.D., when ...

For Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, who roamed across two continents with European royalty and Rocky Mountain trappers before reaching the end of his final journey at Inskip Station, seemed to be a man ...

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was 55 days old when the explorers left Ft. Mandan in present-day North Dakota in 1805 and headed west into the unknown.

After she was captured, a French-Canadian trader living amongst the Hidatsa named Toussaint Charbonneau claimed her as one of his wives.

Apparently, Sacagawea’s husband — Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper — wasn’t a man of much worth, but their son, Jean Baptiste, was a guide extraordinaire.

He made scores of friends, including Sacagawea’s son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, and also some enemies due to his mercurial behavior.

The United States one dollar coin with an image of Sacagawea, a teenage Shoshone, and her infant son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was born on Feb. 11, 1805, in the winter quarters of the Lewis ...