For how many years they had been coming there is no record, but that they might have been associated with Manuel Lisa, seems quite probable. They appeared as free trappers at the mouth of the Laramie in the later years.

When Robert Stuart and party met them at Grand Island, they had come up the river in a boat, and they disposed of the elkskin craft to the Stuart party. Rio and Dornin them moved on up the Platte through the Sand Hills, and must have traversed the Old Trail sometime during the same year.

The fur hunters of that day left their mark upon the country and some of the names linger over to this time. Among those who met in the annual rendezvous on the Laramie, were Jaques Laramie, and M. Goshe, and Gonneville. Each left his bones in the western land, and each brought lingering names to the geography of the west : Laramie peak, Laramie mountains, Laramie plains, Laramie river and the Little Laramie, Laramie city and old Fort Laramie. Goshe frequented the land southeast of the annual rendezvous, and had built him a cabin on Cherry creek, and here he was found dead, apparently murdered by Arapahoes, which were never to be trusted, and then the numerous basins and flats on the eastern border of Wyoming, south of the Platte, became known as Goshe's Holes.

Probably the change in the name was due to the Mormons, who probably misunderstood it in the first place. The notes of many paragraphers call it "Goshen Hole" after the Mormons' pilgrimage to the valley of Great Salt Lake. John Henry Smith, a once prominent Mormon, now passed, told me that there was something about this country that appealed to those of his faith, when journeying into the mountains, and many of them wished that this could be made the Mecca of their journey.