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His image can be found on the United States dollar coin along with his mother, Sacagawea.

Expedition co-leader William Clark nicknamed him "Pomp" or "Pompy." Pompey's Pillar on the Yellowstone River in Montana is named after him.

Years after the expedition, the Charbonneau family moved to St. Louis at Clark's invitation. Clark paid for young Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau to attend school there, and continued to oversee his care and schooling when Sacagawea returned up the Missouri River the elder Charbonneau.

At the age of 18, Charbonneau met Prince Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg (nephew of King Fredrick I). The prince, traveling in America on a natural history expedition, invited Charbonneau to return overseas with him, where he lived for six years and learned to speak four European languages. He travelled all over EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Se and even visited AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. 30,244,050 km2 (11,677,240 mi2) including the islands, it covers 20. 3% of the total land area on Earth, and with over 800 million human inhabitants it accounts for ar.

In 1829Events January 8 Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke his associate William Hare, who testified against him, is released January 19 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres March 4 Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the President o Charbonneau returned to North America, where he lived as a mountain man and army scout. He guided the Mormon BattalionThe Mormon battalion was a force of 500 U. Army soldiers that marched from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San Diego, California, from July, 1846 to January, 1847. The Mormon battalion was recruited from Latter-day Saints who were moving west after being forced f from New MexicoNew Mexico is a state in the southwestern United States and its U. postal abbreviation is NM . The state's two official languages are English and Spanish. Nuevo Mexico was the Spanish name for the territory north and west of the Rio Grande. USS New Mexico to the city of San Diego in CaliforniaCalifornia is a state located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The most populous and third largest state in the U. California is both physically and demographically diverse. The state's official nickname is "The Golden State", wh in 1846, and then accepted an appointment there as alcalde of Mission San Luis Rey. He was eventually forced to resign from that post after his repeated attempts to improve the condition of the local Native American tribes caused political trouble for him.

Charbonneau then got caught up in the California gold rush sweeping the state, and joined thousands of other "49ers" in Placer County. Still chasing the elusive dream of riches, he died (apparently of bronchitis) in Danner, Oregon at the age of 61, while enroute from California to the new gold fields discovered around Virginia City in Montana.

There is a burial site for Charbonneau in Oregon, generally believed to be the correct one. There is another grave site and memorial in Fort Washakie, Wyoming, but it is disputed whether the body interred there could be his.