Earle Jay Goodman

PIONEER SPIRIT - Book Two: Indian Affairs - Pioneer Spirit Earle Jay Goodman

What if you discovered yourself alone in the wilderness on the Overland Trail in 1857, wounded, weaponless, helpless? How would you react if, when you came to the following day, you found a young Shoshone medicine man and a cute Indian shaman girl tending your wounds?

Connal Lee woke up that morning to a new life as a white Shoshone boy. Homesick for his brother and sister, his circumstances dictated he stay with the Shoshones until he made it to Great Salt Lake City. Raised in the Ozarks, educated while pushing a handcart across the country, the intelligent young teen adapted to another significant change in his life.

Connal Lee entered a new phase of his coming-of-age journey, growing up, finding love, and finding his purpose in life.

The United States of America had declared war on the renegade Mormons and sent an army across the country to bring law and order to the Territory of Utah. The natives and Connal Lee found themselves embroiled in the turmoil.

To learn the part Connal Lee played in history, read his story today.