Brown. The city was later renamed Ogden after another early trapper, Peter Skene Ogden.

Retaining his remaining horse herd, Goodyear and his family moved to California and engaged in horse-trading and gold mining. He acquired land at Benicia and made a gold discovery on the Yuba River at "Goodyear's Bar". He died in the Sierra Nevada on November 12, 1849, at the age of thirty-two. He was buried at Benicia, California.