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Joe Walker Mountain Man, Scout and Explorer

by | Oct 18, 2016 | True West Blog

Joseph Rutherford Walker one of America's greatest of the mountain men, scouts and trailblazers; right up there with Carson, Smith, Fitzpatrick and Bridger.  He had the admiration of and respect of both white men and Indians and was comfortable in both cultures. He was married to a Shoshone woman and at home in Indian country for more than fifty years. He was a big man for that period; well over six feet tall and weighing 200 pounds. During the 1830s he was one of the nation's foremost scouts a


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