Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
Marie Aioe Dorion outlasted hers.
The Fur Trade Network She Survived Inside Of
The Pacific Fur Company’s operations in the Columbia Plateau were not isolated commercial activities.
They were embedded in a web of relationships — between companies, between companies and Indigenous nations, between individual traders and the communities they lived among — that structured everything about how life in the region worked in the early nineteenth century.
Understanding this network is essential for understanding how Marie’s survival was possible and how she navigated the aftermath.
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