FP Series #457 - Joe Walker Traditional Cache
Hidden : 11/8/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Four Hundred FiftySeventh in the Famous People (FP) Series - Joe Walker

Joseph Walker has been credited as the first white man to see Yosemite Valley.

In 1833, Joseph Rutherford Walker was recruited by Captain Benjamin Bonneville as field commander of an expedition to the West. Bonneville suggested to Walker that he should take a party of men to California since beaver appeared to be on the decline in the Rocky Mountains.

Walker had already been on his own way to California when the encountered Captain Frémont of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. Frémont hired him to guide a contingent of his survey party down the Humboldt River while Frémont explored though central Nevada, and then, after a short rendezvous at Walker Lake, to guide them south to Walker Pass, while Frémont crossed Truckee Pass. After Walker left Frémont at Gabilan Peak, he traveled on to Los Angeles with his nephew Frank McClellen. In the late spring they arrived in Taos driving a herd of over 500 horses.

Joseph Walker's first foray into California in 1833 was as leader of a trapping and trading venture as part of Bonneville's expedition. He had not been directed to travel to the Pacific: his orders had been to explore and trap the area around the Great Salt Lake--Mexican Territory until 1848, and part of California until the Sierra Nevada range was established as the eastern boundary between the to-be State of California and Utah Territory in 1849.

Later, Joe Walker would say, "Frémont, morally and physically, was the most complete coward I ever knew. I would call him a woman, if it were not casting an unmerited reproach on the sex."

Four Mile Cemetery is about 4 miles from nowhere. The only thing that's about 4 miles away is the small community of Whiton. The entrance lies about 0.35 back north from a bend in FM 90 and it crosses back and forth between Canton and Maybank. The cemetery is located behind what is touted as the first Norweigan Lutheran Church in Texas. So take a nice stroll through the cemetery and see if you can spot the marker for another Joe Walker. This one's epitaph reads "An American Indian". The cache is located just to the south of Joe, and it is a preformed soda bottle tube.
GPSr Accuracy 10.9'

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