Joseph Roskelley was born in Smithfield Utah in 1868. He was the seventh child born to Samuel Roskelley and Rebecca Hendricks. Joseph was born in a time of great change. His life spanned eight decades and parts of two centuries. Over the course of his life, Joseph would travel to Hawaii, serve in New Zealand as a missionary, return to be a pioneer in the settlement of the upper Snake River Valley of Idaho, help build a railroad to Montana, log and mine in the camps of Idaho and Montana, freight through the Teton Pass and Yellowstone National Park, and farm for close to 25 years and survive the Great Depression. This is the story of his life.