Denise Eisenback, age 11, of Jefferson Town, Ky., for her question:

WHO WAS SACAGAWEA?

Sacagawea was an American Indian girl who has a secure place in the history books in the story of the building of the West. Born a Shoshone she was taken by the Hidatsa tribe as a child. Her name means 'bird woman.

Sacagawea and her French Canadian husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, both became guides for Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific in 1805. She gave great assistance in dealing with the many tribes along the way through the mountain country where she had spent her childhood. Throughout the expedition she carried her infant son on her back. Some records show she died as a very young woman in 1812, but others give good indication that she lived to a ripe old age and died in 1884.