Miles M. Goodyear Letter

On November 1, 1842, from the frontier of Mexico at Fort Uintah in the Rocky Mountains, Miles M. Goodyear wrote that he had spent the last six years in the Rocky Mountains, far from civilization and, in the poet’s words, as free as native air. He asked that his friends and associates from youth be told that his home was amid the wild mountains, the land he had imagined since childhood, where he could climb cliffs, tread valleys, hunt the roe, stag, and deer, breathe the clear mountain air, and chase buffalo over the plain, declaring that he was there and would remain there.

Ogden, Utah · United States