1. A Name of Her Own
Marie Dorion refuses to remain in St Louis when her husband joins the 1811 Pacific Fur Company expedition, taking two young sons across the continent through unfamiliar country and unstable leadership. Along the route she meets Sacagawea, another Indigenous mother whose experience gives Marie friendship and…
2. Every Fixed Star
In 1814 Marie Dorion brings her surviving family to the Okanogan settlement, where fur-trade instability and the disappearance or failure of loved ones make ordinary security difficult to sustain. She has survived catastrophe, but grief leaves her suspicious of every blessing and reluctant to trust the…
3. Hold Tight the Thread
By the 1840s Marie Dorion Venier Toupin is established on French Prairie as British and American settlers, missionaries, French Canadian families and disease-stricken Indigenous communities compete within a rapidly changing Oregon Country. Public conflict is matched by strain within Marie’s family as daughters question her love…