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  1. Joseph Albert Walker (February 20, 1921 – June 8, 1966) (Capt, USAF) was an American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut who was the first person to fly an airplane to space.

  2. Joseph R. Walker (December 13, 1798 – October 27, 1876) was a mountain man and experienced scout. He established the segment of the California Trail, the primary route for the emigrants to the gold fields during the California gold rush, from Fort Hall, Idaho to the Truckee River.

  3. Feb 22, 2017 · Joseph Rutherford Walker was one of America’s greatest Mountain Men, scouts and trailblazers. Artist Alfred Jacob Miller used Walker as a model for some of his Old West paintings. Born in Tennessee on December 13, 1798, Walker first headed down the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico Territory when he was 22, trapping the beaver streams of the ...

  4. Joseph R. Walker was a trailblazing pioneer who forged nearly 500 miles of the California Trail. Walker lived an untamed and unconventional life and contributed to the discovery and settlement of the American West.

  5. Oct 18, 2016 · Joseph Rutherford Walker one of Americas greatest of the mountain men, scouts and trailblazers; right up there with Carson, Smith, Fitzpatrick and Bridger. He had the admiration of and respect of both white men and Indians and was comfortable in both cultures.

  6. Dec 26, 2016 · To describe Joseph Rutherford Walker as a typical frontiersman would be to label Abraham Lincoln a typical president. Walker was a man of many firsts: The first to guide a government survey party assigned to map the Santa Fe Trail; the first to find a navigable route over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to California; the first to lead an emigrant ...

  7. Joseph Walker was a U.S. fur trader and explorer. He led the first group of white men to make the east-to-west journey over the Sierra Nevada mountains. He also forged a new path west from California and traveled around much of the West.

  8. Joseph "Joe" Walker (born February 6, 1987) is an American actor, singer, writer, business man and performer based in Los Angeles. He is best known for this work with American musical theatre company Team StarKid.

  9. Joseph Walker (1798-1876) had probably the longest and most distinguished career of any frontiersman in American history. This first biography of this great frontier hero is based on...

  10. Sep 19, 2018 · Five years after Ogden first set eyes on the main stem of the Humboldt River, fur trapper Joseph R. Walker became the first American to prove the route’s potential as a gateway to the Pacific.

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