West Wind the life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker Knight of the Golden Horseshoe. Los Angeles, California: Privately Printed for His Friends by Percy H. Booth, 1934. 26.5 cm, pp. [1-6: blank] [i-x] 1-109 [110: tailpiece] [111-112: bibliography] [113-116: blank], 6 full page illustrations including 4 by Fredric Remington, chapter decorations by Lawrence A. Patterson, 1 map (folded), title page printed in red and black, publisher's quarter leather and boards, spine panel stamped in gold, front panel lettered in green, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Biography of western trapper, explorer, guide Joseph Reddeford Walker (1798-1876). It is possible that members of the Walker party were the first European men to view the Yosemite Valley when they crossed the Sierra Nevada east to west in 1833. See Francis P. Farquhar, History of the Sierra Nevada (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965), pp. [31]-39. For a biographical sketch of Walker, see DAB. Spine leather cracked, a very good copy. (#179338).
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