Tribes of nomadic Shoshoni Indians chose the confluence of the Weber and Ogden rivers as a winter camp because of the relatively mild climate, good fishing and hunting, and plentiful grass for their horses. This same location, the site of the present-day Ogden, was also used in the winter of 1825-26 by a group of American fur trappers with their Indian wives and children. The Shoshoni maintained friendly relations with the Americans and continued to camp in the area. Peter Skene Ogden of the British Hudson's Bay Co. explored and trapped in the upper reaches of the Ogden and Weber valleys, but he never descended to the site of the city that bears his name. In 1846, Miles Goodyear established an out-of-the-way trading post and stockade here, one of the first permanent settlements in Utah, and named it Fort Buenaventura. When Mormons arrived at the site of Salt Lake City in 1847, Goodyear, a former mountain man, felt too crowded.