A Name of Her Own Kirkpatrick JanePaperback
A Name of Her Own Kirkpatrick JanePaperback Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized…
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A Name of Her Own Kirkpatrick JanePaperback
Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman's fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war, protect her sons and raise them well and, despite an abusive, alcoholic husband, keep her marriage together.With two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind in St. Faced with hostile landscapes, an untried expedition leader, and her volatile husband, Marie finds that the daring act she hoped would bind her family together may in the end tear them apart.On the journey, Marie meets up with the famous Lewis and Clark interpreter, Sacagawea. Louis when her husband heads West with the Wilson Hunt Astoria expedition of 1811.
Both are Indian women married to mixed-blood men of French Canadian and