Franchère recorded the encounter and moved on.

His brigade had a long journey ahead.

He was heading east toward Montreal, away from the Columbia River country, returning to a world that was very different from the one he had spent the past three years in.

Marie and her sons were heading toward Fort Okanogan, toward a future that would eventually settle in the Willamette Valley, toward decades of life in a Northwest that would be transformed by the same forces of American expansion that had sent the Hunt expedition west in the first place.

The Resolution That The Record Allows