Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
“She did more than Sacagawea” or “she was as remarkable as Sacagawea” implicitly treats Sacagawea as the standard against which Marie must be measured, rather than treating Marie’s story on its own terms.
Marie Dorion’s story does not need Sacagawea as a reference point.
It stands on its own evidence.
The documented facts of her life — the only woman in a major overland expedition, a transcontinental journey with two children including a pregnancy and infant death, and then a 250-mile winter survival journey after her husband’s death — constitute a historical record that requires no comparison to establish its significance.
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