Rare Books
West wind ; the life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, knight of the golden horseshoe
Image not available
You might also be interested in
Image not available
West wind: the life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe: manuscript
Manuscripts
Manuscript of Douglas S. Watson's biography of mountain man and scout Joseph Reddeford Walker (1798-1876), who helped blaze the California Trail. The biography traces Walker's early life in the southeast, his frequent travels throughout the Midwestern and Western United States (many of them with Captain Benjamin Bonneville), his participation in buffalo hunts and fur trapping, his expedition to California in 1833, his interactions and confrontations with California Indians, and his later trips to and settlement in California from the 1840s-1870s. Inscribed by P.H. Booth. Bound.
mssHM 74608
Image not available
California in the fifties : fifty views of cities and mining towns in California and the West
Rare Books
220112