But she is also, because the documentation that does exist is clear and specific, an opportunity to correct the record.

The documented facts of her life are sufficient to establish her as a figure of genuine historical importance who deserves to be known not as a supporting character in the history of the Pacific Fur Company but as an individual whose decisions and capacities shaped the events she was part of in ways that the standard narratives have failed to capture.

Coming Back To January 1814

The story begins in the snow, and it is worth returning there.