Charbonneau's experience with military marches, such as with James William Abert[7]:128 in August 1845, along the Canadian River, and his fluency in Indian languages qualified him for the position. Sobin, 23 at the time, traveled to Mission San Fernando Rey de España near Los Angeles for the infant girl's baptism, performed on May 28, 1848, and recorded by Father Blas Ordaz as entry #1884. A successful miner, he kept working in the area for nearly sixteen years. Wilhelm was traveling in America on a natural history expedition to the northern plains with Jean Baptiste's father as his guide.

He spoke Shoshone and other western American Indian languages, which he picked up during his years of trapping and guiding. As a boy, Charbonneau learned from the vast collection. Toussaint Charbonneau and Sacagawea departed for the Mandan villages in April 1809 and left the boy to live with Clark.

The school's single classroom was then located in the storehouse of Clark's friend, the trader Joseph Robidoux. [7]:84[15] He attended the 1832 Pierre's Hole rendezvous while working for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. The gravesite has three historical markers. In February 1848, knowledge gained about the region was used as the basis of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which established the United States-Mexico border in December 1853, following the Mexican-American War.[7]:151. Sobin, 23 at the time, traveled to Mission San Fernando Rey de España near Los Angeles for the infant girl's baptism, performed on May 28, 1848, and recorded by Father Blas Ordaz as entry #1884. [citation needed], Jean Baptiste was the son of Sacagawea, a Shoshone, and her French Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau, the former who worked as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In November 1809, the parents returned to St.  Louis to try farming, but left again in April 1811. They knew they would need to negotiate with the Shoshone for horses at the headwaters of the Missouri River. His destination also may have been the Owyhee Mountains, where rich placer deposits were discovered in May 1863. [7]:198 Or he may have been on horseback and fallen off the river bank or slipped out of the saddle while crossing. (It is near the abandoned Anderson General Store, which is intact and appears to be in 1940s condition.)

In 1866, he left the California gold fields for a new strike in Montana, contracted pneumonia en route, reached "Inskips Ranch" here, and died on May 16, 1866.

. Margarita Sobin later married Gregory Trujillo, and some of their descendants may be …

Washakie.

Parish records in Wuerttemberg show that while there, Charbonneau fathered a child with Anastasia Katharina Fries, a soldier's daughter. [26] This is the first documented evidence of his death. "Maria Catarina Charguana, child of Margarita Sobin,", United States National Park Service: "Jean Baptiste Charbonneau,", Hafen LeRoy, "The W.M. . It is worthy of remark that this was the first child which this woman had boarn and as is common in such cases her labour was tedious and the pain violent; Mr. Jessome informed me that he had freequently administered a small portion of the rattle of the rattle-snake, which he assured me had never failed to produce the desired effect, that of hastening the birth of the child; having the rattle of a snake by me I gave it to him and he administered two rings of it to the woman broken in small pieces with the fingers and added to a small quantity of water. The baby, Anton Fries, died about three months after his birth.

[7]:88, From 1833–1840 Charbonneau worked in the fur trade in the Rocky Mountain Trapping System[16] with other mountain men, such as Jim Bridger, James Beckwourth and Joe Meek.

Panning was not done during the hard Sierra Nevada winter or spring runoff, so in June 1849, he joined Jim Beckwourth and two others at a camp on Buckner's Bar to mine the river at the Big Crevice.

Parish records in Wuerttemberg show that while there, Charbonneau fathered a child with Anastasia Katharina Fries, a soldier's daughter. Now contained within the 6,000 acres (24 km2) Ruby Ranch, the site was donated to Malheur County, Oregon by the owners. [24] Some of those "familiar scenes" may have been where he had lived and worked as a mountain man east of the Great Basin.

Colonel Cooke's diary mentions Charbonneau some 29 times from November 16, 1846, to January 21, 1847.

In 1964 an edited nineteenth-century journal was published stating that Sacagawea died much earlier, on December 20, 1812, of a "putrid fever" (possible following childbirth) at Fort Manuel Lisa on the Missouri River.

April 11, 1820: to J. E. Welch for one quarter's tuition, including fuel and ink.

Jean Baptiste continued to reside with Clark.

Sobin, 23 at the time, traveled to Mission San Fernando Rey de España near Los Angeles for the infant girl's baptism, performed on May 28, 1848, and recorded by Father Blas Ordaz as entry #1884.

California statehood on September 9, 1850, ended the post-war difficulties.

[12], Nearly two decades later, while in California as an alcalde or magistrate, Charbonneau was recorded as being the father of another child. .

[7]:67 The general had helped organize the church in 1819. The accident's cause is unknown, but there are several possibilities. SALMON, Idaho - Darrell and Loreen Tendoy didn't intend their move to this central Idaho town earlier this year to hold any significance. The expedition co-leader William Clark nicknamed the boy Pompey ("Pomp" or "Little Pomp").

After the death of his mother, he lived with Clark in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended St. Louis Academy. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni.

This claim "…was shallow and paid well".

[7]:71 According to a 1932 translation of Wilhelm's journal by the historian Louis C. Butscher, Wilhelm wrote that Charbonneau was "…a companion on all my travels over Europe and northern Africa until 1829. Jordan Valley Hamlet Cemetery, Danner, Oregon, U.S. January 22, 1820: payment to J.  E.  Welch for the two-quarters tuition of J. [10][11] Charbonneau may have been hired as a servant, rather than invited as a companion.

Clark paid for his education. Meriwether Lewis noted the boy's birth in his journal: The party that were ordered last evening set out early this morning. Jean Baptiste was born at Fort Mandan in North Dakota. [7]:197 Passing the camp in rugged terrain, the men reached an Owyhee River crossing at present-day Rome, Oregon, where an apparent accident occurred and Charbonneau went into the river. He spoke French and English and learned German and Spanish during his six years in Europe from 1823 to 1829. This is from his Wikipedia page "Nearly two decades later, while in California as an alcalde or magistrate, Charbonneau was recorded as being the father of another child.

Charbonneau died on May 16, 1866. March 31, 1822: to Louis Tesson Honore for boarding, lodging and washing of J. Clark's two-story home, built in 1818, contained an illuminated museum 100 feet (30 m) long by 30 feet (9.1 m) wide. Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (11 Février, 1805 - 16 mai 1866) était un Indien de l' Amérique-française explorateur canadien, guide, trappeur fourrure commerçant, éclaireur militaire pendant la guerre américano-mexicaine, alcalde (maire) de Mission San Luis Rey de Francia et un prospecteur d'or et exploitant de l' hôtel en Californie du Nord.

It is now a ghost town.

In 1843, he guided Sir William Drummond Stewart, a Scottish baronet, on his second long trip to the American West, which was a lavish hunting expedition.

Memorials in their names were erected in 1933 at Ft. Such an act may have been an insult to Clark, which the duke likely would have avoided.

He may have been on a stagecoach operated by the Boise-Silver City-Winnemucca stage company that began its route in 1866 out of Camp McDermitt and in crossing the river, the coach sank.