Happy Pioneer Day

[_Blixa]

This is going to show my ignorance in history, but who is Miles Goodyear, and why would BY take money which was intended for Winter Quarters families, and use it to purchase land for this person?

The state of education! Apparently you've never had a good Utah history class, liz. Thank goodness for my third grade teacher, Mrs. Cook.

As every Utah school child should know, Miles Goodyear built the first house (cabin) in Utah. He was an important mountain man and married the daughter of Ute chief. The original cabin, or likely one from his settlement, is still standing in Ogden.

His settlement, Fort Buenaventura near the Weber River, offered the incoming Mormon pioneers with a useful and ready-made place of refuge. Goodyear thought the Mormons should settle there, rather than in SLC, but they disagreed. A few months after arriving in Utah, they offered to buy the land, the fort and all its buildings and all the animals.

[_harmony]

A few months after arriving in Utah, they offered to buy the land, the fort and all its buildings and all the animals.

They. Who is "they"?

Is there more information out in the ether somewhere?

[_Blixa]

A few months after arriving in Utah, they offered to buy the land, the fort and all its buildings and all the animals.

They. Who is "they"?

Is there more information out in the ether somewhere?

Sorry harm, I thought it was clear from my phrasing: "the Mormons."

I am going off of what I remember from the third grade, Harmony, but you can easily scare up more information on Goodyear online and off...

[_harmony]

Sorry harm, I thought it was clear from my phrasing: "the Mormons."

I am going off of what I remember from the third grade, Harmony, but you can easily scare up more information on Goodyear online and off...

It's not so much Goodyear I'm interested in... it's the transaction.

Sorry. Didn't mean to be abrupt.

[_Blixa]

Sorry harm, I thought it was clear from my phrasing: "the Mormons."

I am going off of what I remember from the third grade, Harmony, but you can easily scare up more information on Goodyear online and off...

It's not so much Goodyear I'm interested in... it's the transaction.

Sorry. Didn't mean to be abrupt.

I mostly know trivia about Goodyear. I don't recall much of anything about the transaction. I do know that the man who was authorized to purchase the land/buildings from Goodyear, a Brother Brown (I remember because Fort Buenaventura was renamed Brownsville before it became Ogden) was a former Mormon Battalion member.

If I run across anything in the next couple of days---in my offline reading---I'll let you know.