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Joseph Rutherford Walker

WALKER, Joseph Rutherford, guide, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1798; died in Ignacio valley, Contra Costa County, California, 2.7 October, 1876. He removed to Jackson county, Missouri, in 1818, began his career as a guide on the frontier in 1822, served in that capacity with Captain Bonneville's expedition to the Rocky mountains in 1832., conducted a party from Great Salt Lake to California in 1833, when he discovered the Yosemite lake and valley and the river that bears his name, found Walker's pass in 1834, and made many subsequent trips across the plains. He resided in Contra Costa county, California, during his later life.

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