Sacagawea's Capture and the History of the Early West
In this illustrated slide lecture, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Elizabeth Fenn uses the circumstances of Sacagawea’s capture to illuminate a deeper history of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains. Fenn discusses Indigenous warfare, hunting techniques, environmental conditions, horse-borne interactions, and plains power dynamics, illuminating the deep history of the West through the story of a one-month period in Sacagawea’s life.
Elizabeth Fenn is the author of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People and Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. She is currently working on a contextual biography of Sacagawea titled Sacagawea’s World: Window on the American West. Fenn recently retired from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she is an Emerita Distinguished Professor in the Department of History.
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