Publisher's Synopsis
Quintessential frontiersman Timothy Goodale traveled west in 1839. His work included fur trapping, trading, ferrying, ranching, surveying, operating a fort, and accompanying Kit Carson on a 500-mile mule drive. Goodale learned several indigenous languages and represented Native American interests to the federal government. In the early 1860s, he led the largest wagon train to ever cross Idaho, and the routes he pioneered impacted regional travel, settlement, and economic development for the next three decades.
