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 of fertile farmland in the Willamette Valley.
After a series of tragedies, she fulfilled her husband\'s dream and arrived with their sons at Oregon City--but then what? In early 1848, th.
But then the unthinkable happened: her husband, Nicholas, drowned while crossing the Snake River.
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 of fertile farmland in the Willamette Valley
