Oregon Trail via Goodale's Cutoff

How about this zoomed view for a reminder of what life must have been like in those days, alongside your family wagon hauled by the two oxen outfit you bought in St Louis, following the northern route, Goodale's Cutoff,  to avoid Indian troubles bedeviling the regular Oregon Trail route south of here?  Sort of makes you appreciate, gazing down on this nubby, rumpled landscape here in the steppe of central Idaho, what tough people those pilgrims must have been to survive a journey in empty, rugged country like that. 

Now there it's US Highway 20, the Sun Valley Highway, leading through the southern edges of the Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho.