Daily Quiz for October 9, 2008

Marie Dorion. Marie Dorion, a 21-year-old Iowa Indian, was the only woman to accompany the 1811-12 overland expedition to the Pacific Northwest led by Wilson Price Hunt. Her husband, Pierre Dorion was hired as an interpreter. Marie would endure many hardships on the expedition to establish a fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River, but is not as well known as such American Indian women as Pocahontas and Sacagawea.