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Rh of all. When the journey came to an end, Captains Lewis and Clark begged that Sacajawea and her husband accompany them to Washington, but Chabonneau preferred the wild life he had chosen, and the brave little woman dropped from civilized history.

Well may the women of beautiful Oregon in the coming Centennial take an honest pride in commemoration of the deeds of Sacajawea. It is most appropriate that the beautiful bronze to be then erected to her memory has been designed and executed by an American woman, Miss Alice Cooper, of Denver.

We copy these stanzas of a poem by Bert Hoffman, who epitomizes admirably the reasons for Sacajawea's honored place in this Centennial history:

"The wreath of Triumph give to her;

She led the conquering captains West;

She charted first the trails that led

The hosts across yon mountain crest!

Barefoot she toiled the forest paths,

Where now the course of Empire speeds;

Can you forget, loved Western land,

The glory of her deathless deeds?

"In yonder city, glory crowned,

Where art will vie with art to keep

The memories of those heroes green—

The flush of conscious pride should