Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker - Hardcover

Gilbert, Bil

 
9780689112416: Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

Bil Gilbert is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Smithsonian, Audubon, Sports Illustrated, and many other important publications. A graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, he has been a Visiting Professor of Journalism in the University of Missouri. Among his five previous books is The Trailblazers, an account of the exploration of western North America in Time-Life's Old West series.

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ISBN 10:  0806119349 ISBN 13:  9780806119342
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985
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