Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
The expedition fragmented into smaller groups, each trying to find a passable route through the canyon country.
Men died.
Others barely survived.
Hunt’s leadership in this section of the journey has been consistently criticized by historians who have studied the expedition.
He made several decisions that his more experienced companions advised against, most notably the attempt to run the Snake River by canoe in sections where the river was clearly unnavigable.
The results were disasters: canoes overturned, supplies lost, men drowned or swept away.
Throughout all of this, Marie Dorion continued.
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