West wind: the life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe: manuscript, 1934.

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West wind: the life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe: manuscript, 1934.

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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.

1 typewritten manuscript, 135 pages.

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Walker, Joseph Reddeford, 1798-1876

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Watson, Douglas S. (Douglas Sloane)

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Douglas Sloane Watson (1875-1948) was a writer and editor who specialized in California history. He published museum-quality reprints of early books and manuscripts as well as writing California histories and biographies which were privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and Book Club of California. Watson was also a frequent contributor to the California Historical Society Quarterly. He authored or edited a variety of published works including The Santa Fe Trail to ...

Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, 1796-1878.

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French-born U.S. Army engineer and frontiersman. From the description of Letter : Fort Clark, Texas, to Major W.W.H. Davis, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1860 Nov 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82956058 From the description of Letter : Fort Clark, Texas, to Major W.W.H. Davis, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1860 Nov 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702150286 Army officer and explorer. From the description of Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville corresponden...