Westering Man, The Life Of Joseph Walker.

BIL GILBERT

Publication: Atheneum, 1983, New York

First edition. Boards with cloth spine, 339pp., 10 small maps, addendum, notes, biblio., index. A well-written biography of this important western frontiersman. Joseph Walker was a man of many accomplishments as explorer, trapper, trader, scout and guide. Walker was among the best. First sheriff of Independence, Missouri; surveyor of the Santa Fe Trail; first white man to see Yosemite; discoverer of the route across the Sierra Nevadas, and leader of the first wagon train into California are among Walker's many accomplishments. Light bump to lower fore-corners, and heavier bump to upper fore-corner of front panel. Near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.