Marie Dorion
And Iowa Indian who came through here
with Wilson Price Hunt's fur trappers in
1811, Marie Drion spent an incredible win-
ter in this region in 1814.
She and her two infant children were sole sur-
vivors of a mid-January Bannock Indian clash
at John Reid's fur trade post 6 miles west of
here. So they had to set out with two horses
on a 200-mile retreat through deep mount-
ain snow. Finally a Columbia River band of
Walla Walla Indians rescued them in April.
