Pieter Burggraaf’s The Walker Party: The Revised Story, Across New Mexico and Arizona Territories and up the Hassayampa River 1861-1863 concerns Walker’s last great expedition—that of leading a party of gold seekers into the forbidden lands of central Arizona in 1863 where few white men had ever dared to venture.
For years historians had relied heavily on the journal of Daniel E. Connor, who accompanied the Walker Party into Arizona. Burggraaf dissects Connor’s embellished manuscript
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