Matilda (Glover) Koontz was thirty-seven years old, a pregnant wife, and the mother of four young sons when she joined her husband in May 1847 for their trek across the Oregon Trail, lured by the promise...

Matilda Koontz cherishes her life as a wife and mother on a Missouri farm, but her hardworking husband wants to claim free farmland in the Pacific Northwest. When he suggests selling the farm to trek...

In the nineteenth century, thousands of men, women, and children crossed the Oregon Trail to settle in the Pacific Northwest. This pictorial book retraces the path of those stalwart pioneers who braved...