Missing Walker Changes Careers?

Between 1842- 1843, nothing is known about the whereabouts of Captain Joseph Walker was - it is assumed he returned to his wife's people in Snake country.  Maybe they started their family during this period?

Walker emerged driving a pack train in 1843, loaded with furs and sold them at Fort Laramie where he found his first party of settlers headed west.  For the next several years, Walker led wagon trains west.  Most of the trains were settlers from Missouri who no doubt knew Captain Walker from his days of Sheriff and landowner. 

Walker's rate for piloting settlers to California was $300 - there was such a thing as the Oregon Trail in California.  California was a foreign land and travel was unknown and extremely difficult. At that time Oregon was thought to be a more suitable, respectable place to live whereas California was thought to be wild country, full of Mexicans, cowboys, sailors and Catholics :)
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This Day in Wild West History:   On October 13, 1845,  a majority of the citizens of the independent Republic of  Texas approved a proposed constitution, that when accepted by the Congress, made Texas the 28th American state.
Next time...Walker the Pilot