Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
The work of recovery — of finding and preserving and narrating the stories that the original documentary record deprioritized — is part of the ongoing project of making the historical record more complete and more accurate.
Marie Dorion’s story is one such recovery.
The facts were always there.
The documentation was always there, however sparse.
The Franchère journal was always there.
The basic outline of the winter survival journey was always present in the available sources.
What changed was not the evidence.
What changed was the willingness to treat that evidence as the subject of primary attention rather than as a footnote to a story about men.
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