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(University of Oklahoma Press, March 15, 1985)
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 This first biography of this great frontier hero is based on years of research and many previously unpublished and neglected sources. It gives a rousing and authoritative picture of Walker-his pioneering heritage, his many accomplishments, and his exceptional personality.
A look at the life of American frontiersman Joseph Walker discusses his career as sherriff of Independence, Missouri, leader of a wagon to California, and explorer who discovered Yosemite and surveyed the Sante Fe Trail