Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
Both deserve to be told.
The child called out on the Columbia River in the spring of 1814, and Franchère’s brigade stopped, and they recognized her.
She was Marie Dorion.
She had just spent three months keeping two children alive through 250 miles of winter in the Blue Mountains.
The recognition, when it came, was brief.
The achievement that earned it was not.
The Pacific Fur Company And The World It Built
John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company, which employed Pierre Dorion as an interpreter and thus brought Marie into the story, was more than a commercial enterprise.
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