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| name         = Goodale's Cutoff
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| image        = Goodale's Cutoff NPS.jpg
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| nearest_city = [[Arco, Idaho]]
| coordinates  = {{coord|43|28|48|N|113|33|52|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin     = Idaho#USA
| area         =
| built        = 1852
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| architecture =
| added        = May 01, 1974<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref>
| refnum       = 74000735
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'''Goodale's Cutoff''' formed a spur of the [[Oregon Trail]] beginning in [[Idaho]], [[United States]]. The cutoff left the trail near [[Fort Hall, Idaho|Fort Hall]], crossed the [[Snake River Plain]] to the [[Lost River (Idaho)|Lost River]], and then turned west to the area of [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]], crossing [[Camas Prairie]]. It rejoined the main trail from Ditto Creek to Boise, then ran to the north of the main trail, crossing the [[Snake River]] into [[Oregon]] at [[Brownlee, Oregon|Brownlee's Ferry]]. In Oregon travelers could now reach the [[Eagle Valley (Oregon)|Eagle Valley]] and [[Pine Valley (Oregon)|Pine Valley]] areas, and the gold mines in [[Auburn, Oregon|Auburn]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/1075.pdf |title=Goodale's Cutoff Midvale Hill: Boise to Brownlee, in 1862 |access-date=2012-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204183926/https://history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/1075.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/1048.pdf |title=Goodale's Cutoff from Boise Valley to Powder River |access-date=2012-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407201355/https://history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/1048.pdf |archive-date=2017-04-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.idahogenealogy.com/goodale/mapping_marking.htm Conclusions about Mapping and Marking the Goodale North]</ref> The cutoff rejoined the main Oregon Trail at the [[Powder River (Oregon)|Powder River]], near [[Baker City, Oregon|Baker City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=ID&PARK=CRMO&STRUCTURE=&SORT=&RECORDNO=6|date=2009-01-15|work=List of Classified Structures|title=Goodale's Cutoff|publisher=National Park Service|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521222053/http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=ID&PARK=CRMO&STRUCTURE=&SORT=&RECORDNO=6|archivedate=2011-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{NRHP url|id=74000735|title=Goodale's Cutoff National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form}}</ref>
In 1852, John Jeffrey began promoting a trail following traditional [[Shoshoni]] paths in order to generate business for his ferry on the Blackfoot River. The cutoff received limited use from 1852–54. By 1862, the [[Northern Shoshone]] and [[Bannock people|Bannock]] tribes were beginning to resist the intrusion of settlers into their homeland, and that year Shoshone Indians ambushed a wagon train at Massacre Rock, killing 10 people. During 1862 Tim Goodale led a group of 1,095 people, 338 wagons, and 2,900 head of stock safely from Fort Hall to [[Fort Boise#Old Fort Boise (1834&ndash;54)|Old Fort Boise]] on the cutoff pioneered by Jeffrey. By 1863, seven out of every ten wagons en route from Fort Hall to Boise took Goodale's Cutoff instead of the main Oregon Trail. Goodale's Cutoff is visible at many points along [[U.S. Highway 20]], U.S. Highway 26, and [[U.S. Highway 93]] between Craters of the Moon National Monument and [[Carey, Idaho|Carey]]<ref>Goodale's Cutoff NPS {{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/crmo/goodale.htm |title=Craters of the Moon NM & Preserve: Goodale's Cutoff |accessdate=2013-07-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726084731/http://www.nps.gov/archive/crmo/goodale.htm |archivedate=2008-07-26 }} Retrieved September 19, 2013</ref>
[[Image:Goodale.gif|thumb|left|300px|Goodale's Cuttoff 1862]]
[[File:Goodales Cutoff of Oregon Trail at Lava Lake in 2013.jpg|thumb|300px|Goodale's Cutoff of the Oregon Trail at Lava Lake, west of Arco, ID and east of Carey, ID along US Highway 26]]
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==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal |first= Susan Badger |last= Doyle |date=August 2008 |title= Trails in Southwestern Idaho |journal= [[Oregon-California Trails Association]] |volume= Booklet |series= Convention |pages= 9–11, 22–29}}
* {{cite book |last =  McGill |first= James |year= 2009 |title= Rediscovered Frontiersman Timothy Goodale |publisher= Oregon-California Trails Association |location = [[Independence, Missouri]] |isbn= 978-1-893061-06-4}}
==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170204183849/https://history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/1071.pdf Goodale's Cutoff North of Timmerman Hill]
*[http://www.nps.gov/crmo/historyculture/goodales-cutoff.htm Goodale's Cutoff]
{{National Register of Historic Places}}
[[Category:Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho]]
[[Category:Oregon Trail]]
[[Category:Geography of Butte County, Idaho]]
[[Category:Historic trails and roads in Oregon]]
[[Category:Geography of Baker County, Oregon]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Butte County, Idaho]]