Miles Goodyear was born in 1817 on February 24th. He was a mountain man during the last few years of the fur trade. Both of his parents died when he was young. So he was bound out to a farmer in Connecticut until 1834. Then he joined the whiteman spaulding missionary party. He traveled with them to fort hall along the snake river. Then he left to find his fortune in he mountains. He then married a daughter of the Ute chief pe-teet-neet named Pomona. Then is 1845 he decided to make a home along the Weber river. He built his home out of some cottonwood logs and erected a stockade. He irrigated with water from the river and used it to drink and to plant a garden and some fruit trees. He called this home fort Beneventure which meant good venture.
