Marie Dorion

OTE's text calls Marie Dorion Sioux; she was Ioway. It also hurries through her winter of 1814, much of it spent in this country. After her husband and his fellow trappers were killed on the Boise, she led her two sons for nine days through snowdrifts up the Burnt River, north along the Powder and over the hills to the Grande Ronde, to the foot of the Blue Mountains. There she killed the horses, smoked the meat and held out in a shelter for fifty-three days, then walked fifteen more to a Walla Walla camp that took them in.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center — 19 mi
  A hilltop museum that Baker City built to revive its economy, above a mile of wagon ruts and the first view the emigrants had of the valley ahead.

More markers nearby

• Cattle Drives — 11 mi
• The Lone Tree of the Oregon Trail — 19 mi
• The Lure of Gold — 19 mi
• Baker — 20 mi