When Captain Walker and Benjamin Bonneville met up again on Bear River in the summer of 1834 supplies from St. Louis were waiting for them. The two planned their operations for the next year amid a good feeling of plenty.
Bonneville would make his fall hunt on the Columbia River with 50 men, while Captain Walker would go across the Rockies to the Missouri River with 55 men. Unknown to them was the next time they met would be along the Big Horn exactly a year later in July 1835.
Walker's men trapped successfully across the Rockies along the Yellowstone and Big Horn River (the region was called Absaroka, the home of the Crow Indians). For the winter Walker divided up his men and took most of them to Wind River to camp and set up a trading post 60-70 miles east of the Continental Divide.
Next time...A Good Winter
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