Sacajawea

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Summary: A life experience never forgotten.
Review: I was in middle school when I first read this book. It took me a whole week to finish, having over 1400 pages. I couldn't put it down. I used to sneak and read it in class. I read while on the bus going to and from school. I would use a flash light while laying in my bed at night and read. I got into trouble one night and the book was taken away from me for a day. Boy was I mad!

I found the story to flow quite well. I was never left with a feeling that something had been left out. I could "feel" all of the emotions that Sacajawea experienced. It makes me feel embarrassed at how the indian nation as a whole has been, and still to this day, treated.

I thoroughly enjoyed every page. I became more interested in history after reading this book. In fact, two days after I finished reading the book the Louis & Clark expedition was brought up in my history class. I had answers to so many of the questions the teacher asked. No one in the class had even heard of Sacajawea, but I had.

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Summary: know what she did in her life
Review: I would like to now when she died and also I want to know about inportant things she did.

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Summary: Amazing woman, amazing book...
Review: If you're a fan of historical fiction, this is a must-read title.

Waldo has done a superb job in relaying the true story of Sacjawea - Lewis & Clark's guide (and she was oh so much more...). This is a HUGE fictional, yes, but you'll be so absorbed - veritably transported to the time and place - you'll not notice, trust me!

When I got to the end of the book, it was with a sense of accomplishment (it's over 1400 pages) and some regret that it was over (I didn't want it to end!)... mixed feelings, for sure. This is one of my all-time fave fiction titles. Can't recommend it highly enough!

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Summary: Amazing woman, amazing book...
Review: If you're a fan of historical fiction, this is a must-read title.

Waldo has done a superb job in relaying the true story of Sacjawea - Lewis & Clark's guide (and she was oh so much more...). This is a HUGE fictional, yes, but you'll be so absorbed - veritably transported to the time and place - you'll not notice, trust me!

When I got to the end of the book, it was with a sense of accomplishment (it's over 1400 pages) and some regret that it was over (I didn't want it to end!)... mixed feelings, for sure. This is one of my all-time fave fiction titles. Can't recommend it highly enough!

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Summary: One of the Best
Review: It took me a long time to get through this book. It is long, but well worth the read. Anna Lee Waldo's writing brought the story of Sacajawea to life. A wonderful mix of history and storytelling. Highly recommended reading.

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Summary: Excellent! Storyline from publisher
Review: The Heroic Saga of a great woman whose life tells the story of a nation

Clad in doeskin , along and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea , child of a Shoshoni chief, one woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek- beautiful speal of a dying nation.

She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies , across the Great Divide to the crystal capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the Pacific Northwest, her story overflows with emotion and action ripped from the bursting fabric of a raw new land.

Ten years in the writing, Sacajawea unfolds an immense canvas of people and events , and captures the eternal longings of a woman who always yearned for one great passion- and always it lay beyond the next mountain.

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Summary: Good Reading, more fiction than history
Review: The problem I had with this book is that is completely misrepresents the history of Sacajawea and the Lewis and Clark Expidition. The footnotes are mostly irrelevant, the dialougue between Lewis and Clark is laughable (imagine Clark calling Lewis "you son of a gun"!) and the part about the Mandans descending from the Welsh is more fantasy than history.

It is decent reading, but to actually think that you have gotten any insight to the time period from reading this book is wrong.

Sacajaweas story is interesting enough in itself without having to make up goofy subplots about a love affair with Clark and a situation where Sacajawea is almost a leader in the L and C party. Also, Charbonneau couldnt have been the idiot and coward she portrays, considering his impressive background as a wilderness trader.

Ugh. This book frustrated me more than anything.

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Summary: OK novel, but dont confuse it with reality.
Review: This book is a whole lot more fiction than historical. Please dont believe that this is the true story of Sacajawea.

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Summary: Good book/boring book
Review: This book should be entitled "Everything you wanted to know about Indians, but were afraid to ask." Anna Waldo takes every custom, history, tradition, and story (or so it seems) and turns it into a chapter of this book, making it way too long and boring (unless you are studying Indian history and culture, then by all means read it). It takes her 250 pages just to get to Rogers and Clark!

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Summary: A must read!
Review: This book was in a word - wonderful. Even if you don't typically read a lot of historical fiction, but have an interest in our nation's history or Native American history, you will thoroughly enjoy this book.

It's interesting from a wide range of spectrums, from the actual Lewis and Clark expedition, to the treatment and role of women, to a clash of cultures and a fight for land, to a love of family and commitment to legacy. The writing is wonderfully detailed, and I enjoyed the quotes at the beginning of each chapter that gave a glimpse into what may happen next. I couldn't put it down.

It's true it's a work of historical FICTION, and based on a series of knowns and unknowns. The writer did a great job of creating her interpretation of the "facts" known about Sacajawea's life. History is an interpretation, and I think this is prime way to get people talking and thinking about what really happened. This book really spawned my interest in the Expedition and American history.