Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
The Oregon Encyclopedia has a substantive entry.
The National Park Service has a page dedicated to her story.
These are the official acknowledgments of a woman whose survival achievement has not received the popular recognition that comparable achievements by Euro-American men have received.
The gap between the official recognition and the popular recognition reflects the same asymmetry that shaped the historical record from the beginning: the assumption that the important stories of the American West are primarily the stories of the men who led its expeditions, founded its enterprises, and wrote its narratives.
Marie Dorion’s story challenges that assumption.
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