Albert Gallatin Archives - Lewis & Clark Research Database https://research.lewisandclarktrust.org/key-figure/albert-gallatin/ A digital archive of treaties, documents, artwork, and 360° trail panoramas from the Corps of Discovery Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:34:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Sacagawea Recognizes Home — Three Forks https://research.lewisandclarktrust.org/journal/sacagawea-recognizes-home-three-forks/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:34:30 +0000 https://research.lewisandclarktrust.org/journal/sacagawea-recognizes-home-three-forks/ Our present camp is precisely on the spot that the Snake Indians were encamped at the time the Minnetares of the Knife river first came in sight of them five years since. From this place they retreated about three miles up Jeffersons river and concealed themselves in the woods. The Minnetares pursued, attacked them, killed 4 men, 4 women, a number of boys, and made prisoners of the remaining females. Among them was Sah-cah-gar-we-ah.

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]]> At the Three Forks of the Missouri, Sacagawea recognized the landscape of her childhood — the very place where she had been captured by a Hidatsa raiding party five years earlier. Lewis recorded the story in detail.

“Our present camp is precisely on the spot that the Snake Indians were encamped at the time the Minnetares of the Knife river first came in sight of them five years since.”

The three forks were named Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin after the President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury. The expedition followed the Jefferson fork, the westernmost branch, as they searched for the Shoshone people and the horses they desperately needed to cross the mountains.

Sacagawea’s recognition of the landscape confirmed the expedition was nearing Shoshone territory and increased hopes of making contact soon.

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]]> Trinity Church Cemetery — Albert Gallatin Burial https://research.lewisandclarktrust.org/allied-sites/trinity-church-cemetery-albert-gallatin-burial/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:05:37 +0000 https://research.lewisandclarktrust.org/allied-sites/trinity-church-cemetery-albert-gallatin-burial/ Burial site of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury who helped finance the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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]]> Trinity Church Cemetery near Wall and Broad Streets in lower Manhattan is the final resting place of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under President Jefferson who played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in financing and supporting the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Gallatin’s contributions to the planning of the expedition are often overlooked, though Lewis recognized his support by naming the Gallatin River in Montana in 1805.

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