Astorian Camp

On this site, Oct. 18, 1811, sixty-one Astorians of the Pacific Fur Company led by Wilson Price Hunt camped for 5 days while traveling from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. They were the second group to cross the continent, just 5 years after Lewis and Clark. Here they met and traded with the Snake Indians, killed buffalo, and cured meat. The group included Marie Dorian, the Iowa Indian wife of guide Pierre Dorian, and her two children, ages 2 and 4. Later during the trip, on Dec. 30, 1811, after stopping for only one day, she gave birth to her third child. Continuing their journey, the Astorians crossed the divide one mile north of here to the waters of the Columbia River. They were the first white men in what is now Sublette County.

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