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1979 novel by Anna Lee Waldo

Sacajawea is an American historical fiction novel written by Anna Lee Waldo as a fictionalized biography of Sacajawea, the Shoshone guide employed by Lewis and Clark. Published by Avon Books in 1979, portions of the novel were plagiarized from works by Charles McNichols, Frank Waters, Benjamin Capps, Vardis Fisher, Frederick Manfred, among others. A revised edition, containing significant changes to the original text, was published in May 1984.

The novel was written over a period of ten years according to Waldo. In addition to extensive reading, Waldo's research included tracing the Lewis and Clark Trail trail three times, and pushing her husband, Willis H. Waldo, to join the St. Louis Westerners, a chapter of Westerners International. The Library Journal said the novel was "tiring", and "while the basic tale is written competently, the author smothers it in minutiae." Adding the novel was "for intrepid historical fiction fans." In South Dakota History, Richard Etulain of University of Oregon said of the novel's historical liberties and "unusual" presentation: "imagination—sheer invention—dominates this fat work." He lamented, "historians and other academics have roundly criticized—even scorned—what they consider the inadequacies and superficialities" of Waldo's work, yet the novel remains the most popular written about Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea. Other plagiarized works include Charles McNichol's Crazy Weather (1944), and Frank Water's The People of the Valley (1941). Jan DeVries and Jim Harrison are credited as editors who assisted Waldo in the revision. An ebook edition, which includes additional revisions to the text, was published by HarperCollins in 2010 .