But the pattern of choices is documented, and the choices themselves reveal something about how she understood her situation and her options.

The later life is similarly consistent.

After the rescue, she formed partnerships with two successive fur-trade men, both of whom preceded her in death.

She had additional children.

She settled in the Willamette Valley when settlement became the available option.

She was formally married in 1841.

She lived to 1850.

This is not a story of triumphant vindication.