num_pages: 322
description: A Name of Her Own is a fictionalized account of the life of Marie Dorion. With 2 young sons to raise, Marie refuses to stay in St. Louis when her husband heads West with the Wilson Hunt Astoria expedition of 1811, making her the first mother to cross the Rockies and stay in the Northwest. On the trip, Marie meets the famous Lewis and Clark interpreter, Sacagawea. Both are pregnant Indian women married to mixed-blood men of French Canadian and Indian descent who have traveled with expeditions led by white men and are raising sons in a white world.
language: English
title: A Name of Her Own
titlecomplete: A Name of Her Own (Tender Ties Historical Series #1)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Christian Fiction, Westerns, Adult, Adult Fiction, Christian Historical Fiction, Survival, Historical Fiction, Christian
ratings_count: 1453
series: Tender Ties Historical
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: the Novel (Finalist)
publisher: Waterbrook Press