Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
For Marie, Fort Astoria represented neither a destination nor a home in any permanent sense.
It was a staging post in an existence defined by movement.
In the summer of 1813, she left it.
Into The Interior Again
The trapping expedition that would lead to Pierre’s death and Marie’s winter survival journey began in the summer of 1813.
The Pacific Fur Company needed to maintain its interior trapping operations even as the broader political situation in the region was deteriorating.
A party was organized under John Reed, a company employee, to proceed into the Snake River country and trap beaver through the winter of 1813-1814.
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