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Post by gandrew on Jun 27, 2013 12:32:17 GMT -7
Walker party to California . . . does anyone have any interest in the story?
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Post by teakmtn on Jun 27, 2013 16:02:59 GMT -7
Very much so. I frequently review "Adventures of Zenas Leonard's Fur Trader", and most anything I can find re. Joseph Reddeford Walker.
I live on the Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada Mtns, near where the Walker party crossed from thier treck across the Great Basin desert in 1833. I spend many days deer hunting, a few elk hunting and many days trout fishing this area. When your sitting on a rock, watching the Sun rise over the sage, you can imagine Walker and party coming west, parched beyond belief, The Sierras may have felt like providence. Then onto crossing the Sierras, more tribulation...
Gonna look for that book and read it again.
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Mark
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Post by Mark on Jun 28, 2013 6:56:11 GMT -7
Westering Man, by Gilbert is a good biography of Walker. I highly recommend it.
Mark
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Post by teakmtn on Jun 28, 2013 10:10:32 GMT -7
Mark, That's a good one too. Read it back in the 80's I believe. Going to have to dig that out and add it to the summer reading list. If I recall, one of the reasons I liked the book is how Gilbert properly caricaturizes Fremont as a cad, at best. But as I said it's been awhile since I read it. I've never read the Irving book on Bonneville where Walker is somewhat vilified. Probably should, just to see why that perspective was important to publish, and to get perspective on Bonneville. Uh Oh, too much coffee.
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Post by gandrew on Jun 29, 2013 14:39:10 GMT -7
Walker was an incredible explorer . . . these books add more information about Walker's adventures . . ."Discovery of the Yosemite and Indian wars of 1851" by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell - "The Arizona of Joseph Pratt" - "History of the Walker Party" James M. Barney - "Echoes of the Past" Vol. 2 The Miller Story - In Search of Arizona Gold . . . which I believe was Walker Greatest Adventure . . . taking over 3 years to complete.
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Post by gandrew on Jun 29, 2013 21:10:52 GMT -7
There is a website with a lot of Walker's information . . . www.josephrwalker.com/Preface.htm . . . the site is owned by Robert Brammer. . . Robert had cancer and presently passed away. . . I had been helping him correct a few of his outlines . . . by including new maps of the different routes Walker had traveled in some of his adventures . . . Robert was going to add his story to the maps, but passed away before finishing . . . you may want to look at his layouts . . . it contains a lot of information about the 1800's and the trappers. G Andrew |
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