Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
It is the story of a life conducted in difficult circumstances by a person who adapted to those circumstances without being defined by them.
The winter survival of 1814 was the most extreme episode in a life that included several other extreme episodes.
What made it distinctive was not simply its severity but its visibility: the specific circumstance of the encounter with Franchère’s brigade on the Columbia River made it documentable in a way that the other hardships of her life were not.
What The Historical Marker Says
On a hillside in Parma, Idaho, in what was once Old Fort Boise Park, there is a statue of Marie Dorion.
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