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    Joseph R. Walker (December 13, 1798 – October 27, 1876) was a mountain man and experienced scout. He established the segment of the California Trail, the...
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  • Joseph or Joe Walker may refer to: Joe Louis Walker (born 1949), American blues musician from San Francisco Joe Walker (Zydeco) (born 1944), American Zydeco...
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    Joseph Albert Walker (February 20, 1921 – June 8, 1966) (Capt, USAF) was an American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut...
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    Sibley, Benjamin Harrison Reeves, and Pierre Menard, alongside Joseph R. Walker and Joseph C. Brown, to be part of a survey of the trail. They followed...
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    ZIP Code is 96107, and mail to Walker should be addressed Coleville. The town was likely named for pioneer Joseph R. Walker, who started his ascent of the...
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    beaver south of the Humboldt Sink, although records are scant. In 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a party sent by Captain Benjamin Bonneville to find a route from...
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    a series of articles run in 1853, Captain Joseph R. Walker in January 1851 with his nephew James T. Walker and six men, traveled up the Colorado River...
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    Walker Basin is a valley in the Southern Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, California. It is named for Joseph R. Walker, a pioneer in the area. Walker Basin...
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    California-Nevada border in the watershed of Walker Lake in the Great Basin. The river derives its name from Joseph R. Walker, a mountain man. It rises from snowmelt...
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    in a Catholic church in Skaneateles, New York. They had three children: Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III, Robert Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christina "Amy" Biden...
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    Americans. In 1834 explorer Joseph R. Walker passed this junction of Indian trails after crossing the Sierra Nevada via Walker Pass. In the winter of 1849–50...
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    extends from Oregon to Death Valley and beyond. It was named after Joseph R. Walker, a mountain man who scouted the area with John C. Frémont in the 1840s...
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    vacated by Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., who assumed senior status on June 9, 2019. The American Bar Association (ABA) rated Walker "not qualified," saying...
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    company enlisted mountain man Joseph R. Walker as a guide. Chiles and Walker split the company into two groups. Walker led the company with the wagons...
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    : 53–77 : 158  In 1832 Captain Benjamin Bonneville, aided by Michel Cerre and Joseph R. Walker, blazed a wagon road across the pass. Their caravan of 20 wagons, in...
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    record. On May 1, 1834, Joseph R. Walker entered Owens Valley from the south, having crossed the Sierra Nevada at Walker Pass. Walker and his group of 52...
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  • Universe Joseph R. Walker (1798—1876), an American mountain man and scout This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Captain Walker. If...
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    alike. The California Historical Landmark reads: NO. 99 WALKER'S PASS - Discovered by Joseph R. Walker, American trailblazer, who left the San Joaquin Valley...
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    are named. Other well-known adventurers included Jedediah Smith and Joseph R. Walker, who also came into the area in the 1800s. Gradually, the river's surroundings...
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  • Landmark #457. The inscription on the plaque reads: Indian water hole on Joseph R. Walker trail of 1834 where Manly-Jayhawker parties of 1849 found their first...
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  • – John P. Wales (founder) Walker Pass (California) – Joseph R. Walker (explorer) Walker River (Nevada) – Joseph R. Walker (explorer) Wallace, California...
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    Shadrack F. Slatter, American slave trader and capitalist (d. 1861) Joseph R. Walker, American explorer (d. 1876) December 14 – Alexis Bailly, American...
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    Joseph Henry Walker (December 21, 1829 – April 3, 1907) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Worcester, Massachusetts. He was...
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    to California, early California settlers like Joseph B. Chiles and mountain men such as Joseph R. Walker found the route up the Raft River, through the...
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    known westerners to actually explore the area were Jedediah Smith and Joseph R. Walker. Though gold spurred the infrastructural development of Alpine County...
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  • on the prior experiences of Jedediah Smith, Peter Skene Ogden, and Joseph R. Walker. That route led southwest from Soda Springs along the Bear River and...
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    Appleton. Walker p. 76 Walker p. 78 Walker p. 79 Walker p. 57 Walker p. 62 Walker p. 63 Walker p. 81 Walker p. 98 Walker p. 84 Walker p. 66, 84 Walker p. 64-65...
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    Joseph Marshall Walker (July 1, 1784 – January 20, 1856) was a Louisiana soldier and politician and the 13th Governor of Louisiana, from 1850 to 1853....
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    Callaghan, Patrick Joseph Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker. Five were Belfast-born, while John Walker was born in Derry...
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    Arizona's capital. Near the end of that employment, he encountered the Joseph R. Walker exploratory party near Pinos Altos when Swilling led the capture of...
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