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.

Among the meagre personal effects of M.

Goshe, at the time of his demise, were found crude sketches which indicated that he trapped on Cherry creek, Horse creek, Bear creek, Lodgepole creek, Lawrence fork, and Gonneville or Pumpkin creek, all of which were then unnamed.

Gonneville was like Goshe, a French Creole, and after the annual meet at the Laramie rendezvous, he would disappear into the southeast wilderness, where he trapped for beaver as far east probably as Ash Hollow. His period of activity extended from 1820 to 1830. He was with Bissonette at the time the bones of immortal Scott were found near the spring on Scotts Bluff mountain, and he was killed by Indians in 1830, near the point where Lorren's fork joins Pumpkin creek. The latter then became known as Gonneville creek, until the coming of the cowmen.

It seems natural for successive classes of people in any territory, to unconsciously endeavor to obliterate the names and the glory of the departing peoples. Thus the reckless and contemptuous cowmen changed much of our geographical nomenclature. Lodgepole creek became commonly known as Pole creek, and Gonneville creek lost its historic significance in the prosiac Pumpkinseed. Lorren's fork became Lawrence fork, and the beautiful Bluewater now bears a disagreeable name, the Snake.