Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
One of them has a coin named after her.
The other has a statue in a park in Parma, Idaho.
The difference in their subsequent recognition says something not about the relative significance of their achievements but about the relative accessibility of those achievements to the narrative traditions that shape popular historical memory.
Sacagawea’s role is embedded in the Lewis and Clark journals, which are among the most thoroughly studied documents in American history.
Marie’s role is embedded in the Franchère journal and in later reconstructions from secondary sources.
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