

Rhoades migrated to the Salt Lake Valley in Aug. Rhoades was a member of an 1846 expedition west of the Rocky Mountains that landed him in California, where he worked for John Sutter, whose mine sparked the California Gold Rush in 1848.

Thomas Rhoades was one of the wealthiest members of the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to make the Salt Lake Valley his home. SALT LAKE CITY - From a lost treasure to one of the most notorious train robbers in the Old West, Utah is home to unsolved mysteries that have been eluding answer for decades. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.
