"Goodale's Cutoff "Near Craters of the Moon " Traditional Cache
"Goodale's Cutoff "Near Craters of the Moon "
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The turn off to this cache ,use these cords N 43.23.452 W 113.38.855 This road go 2 miles on the Goodale cutoff , Goodale stopped for a day (July 28) to gather up still more wagons. This precaution gave him a force of 795 men, augmented by 300 women and children. With such a show of strength, his wagons escaped the kind of misfortune of some emigrants who ran into an Indian fight at Massacre Rocks, August 9, on the regular Oregon Trail south of the Snake River.
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"Goodale's Cutoff "Near Craters of the Moon, Goodale stopped for a day (July 28) to gather up still more wagons. This precaution gave him a force of 795 men, augmented by 300 women and children. With such a show of strength, his wagons escaped the kind of misfortune of some emigrants who ran into an Indian fight at Massacre Rocks, August 9, on the regular Oregon Trail south of the Snake River."Goodale's Cutoff departed the Oregon Trail at Fort Hall, crossed the Snake River Plain past Southern Butte to Lost River, and then headed west across the Camas Prairie. Camas Prairie provided an approach to the Boise region that stayed north of the broad valley of the Snake. The cutoff rejoined the Oregon Trail at Ditto Creek."The Goodale route was heavily used in 1852 and 1854. ( Mint ten with good stuff )
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