Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
The children walked when they could and rode when they could not.
The expedition encountered Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau — the Shoshone woman and French-Canadian interpreter who had traveled with Lewis and Clark — at an Arikara village early in the journey.
Whether Marie Dorion and Sacagawea exchanged any words during this meeting is not recorded in the sources.
The two women were in some ways parallel figures in the history of the era, though the parallel would not be apparent for many years, and even then it would be lopsided in terms of who received posterity’s attention.
By fall, the expedition had reached the Snake River country, and the relative ease of the first months was gone.
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