At long last, the nonfiction story of an 1847 pioneer mother of four young sons who lost her husband at the Snake River on the Oregon Trail. She later married the first American to settle north of the Columbia River and hosted such well-known people as Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens and Ulysses S. Grant, Phil Sheridan, George McClellan, who later became US generals. Kickoff of Matilda Jackson Legacy Day is Saturday, Oct. 26, at the first courthouse in Washington state, where she lived.