Joseph Walker's 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite's Discovery
by
Scott Stine, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year’s provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of central California. Toward the end of their journey the Walker brigade crossed the Sierra Nevada, becoming...