Did Meriwether Lewis help deliver Sacajaweas baby?
he helped by giving her some folk medicine (rattle from rattlesnake) According to the article “Several weeks into the Lewis and Clark Expedition, on Feb. 11, 1805, Meriwether Lewis wrote, “This evening Sacagawea was delivered of a fine boy. Mr. Jessaume informed me that a small portion of the rattle of a rattlesnake had never failed to hasten a birth. Having such a rattle, I gave it to him. Whether this medicine was the cause or not, she had not taken it 10 minutes before the baby was born.” also from other page At Fort Mandan in what is now North Dakota, when the pregnant Sacagawea had a long, difficult labor, Lewis dosed her with a concoction using rattlesnake rattles, and shortly after, she safely delivered the baby. Sources: http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article2171.chtml and http://www.theculturedtraveler.com/Archiv
