Bil Gilbert's biography of American mountain man and frontiersman Joseph R. Walker (1798-1876). Walker is credited with blazing the California Trail through northern Nevada and the Sierra Nevada and with organizing the first wagon train to California. With several maps by Michael Serres. --- In wraps with black & white detail from Alfred Jabob Miller's "'Bourgeois' W______r, & His Squaw" to cover. --- With prior owner's signature to first page, sunned spine with reading crease, else a sound, tightly-bound copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; viii, (2), 340 pages
Title: Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker
ISBN Number: 0806119349
ISBN-13: 9780806119342
Location Published: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1985
Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good-
Categories: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, >>American History & Politics
Stock No.: 87159
