Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
They see canoes approaching from the direction of the Walla Walla encampment.
They pay little attention at first.
River traffic was normal on the Columbia.
Canoes moving in either direction were not unusual.
Then a child’s voice calls out in French.
“Stop, stop.”
They stopped.
They looked.