C. C. (Charles Carroll) Goodwin

Born in New York in 1832, Goodwin went west as a young man and built an unusually varied career. He lived in California and Nevada, worked in law and public service, and became part of the literary and journalistic culture that grew up around the mining frontier.

He is especially remembered as a newspaper editor and writer. Sources from the Library of Congress and the University of Nevada, Reno connect him with the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, later with the Salt Lake Tribune, and with Goodwin's Weekly in Utah. His book As I Remember Them reflects that long experience, gathering reminiscences of western figures and places.

Goodwin died in Salt Lake City in 1917. Today he stands as a vivid chronicler of the nineteenth-century West, blending firsthand memory, journalism, and storytelling in a way that still gives his readers a strong sense of the people and energy of the frontier.