He wrote it down.

The Franchère journal was originally written in French and was not widely available in English until the mid-nineteenth century, when it was translated and published.

Washington Irving’s “Astoria,” published in 1836, drew heavily on the available Astorian accounts but gave Marie even less space than the primary sources provided.

Irving was writing popular history designed to celebrate American commercial enterprise, and an Ioway woman’s winter survival journey was not the story he was most interested in telling.

The gap between what Marie did and how much space the major published narratives gave her is a pattern that repeats throughout the historiography of the period.