Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
And now this account, which has tried to do what the original documentary tradition failed to do: treat her story as the primary subject rather than as context for someone else’s narrative.
She crossed 250 miles of Blue Mountain winter with two young children and a set of specific knowledge and arrived at the Columbia River in spring.
The canoes came.
A child called out.
She was recognized.
That is what the historical record gives us.
She gave considerably more.