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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Jul 1, 2022 · 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.
Oct 18, 2016 · Joseph Rutherford Walker one of America’s 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.
Apr 19, 2016 · Scott Stine’s A Way Across the Mountain: Joseph Walker’s 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite’s Discovery (University of Oklahoma Press, $39.95) buries the myth—risen from an obituary—that mountain man Joseph Walker spotted Yosemite Valley while crossing the Sierra Nevada in 1833.
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.
Aug 19, 2009 · Joseph R. Walker. Born in Tennessee on December 13, 1798, Joseph Walker grew to be six feet tall and at least 200 pounds, and was a powerful mountain man and trail blazer. Walker helped establish the Santa Fe trail, and discovered “Walker Pass” the gap in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Captain Joseph Walker was a pioneer, trailblazer, explorer, and mountain man. He was honorable, kind and courageous. The love of his life was adventure and exploring unknown territories. He was born on December 13, 1798 in Knoxville, Roane County, Tennessee.
