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Historical person
c. 1786–1850
Marie Dorion was an Ioway or Métis woman who travelled with the Pacific Fur Company expedition and became one of the best-known women of the early Oregon Country.
This person is linked because Jane Kirkpatrick portrays the historical figure under their own identity. Dialogue, private motives and undocumented incidents are imaginative reconstruction and should not be read as a complete biography.
Series
Tender Ties fictionalises the life of Marie Dorion, an Ioway woman who crossed the Rocky Mountains with the Pacific Fur Company expedition and survived catastrophe in the Oregon Country. The trilogy follows her from the 1811 journey through Okanogan and French Prairie as she protects her children amid…
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