While Fremont was toting cannons across the West, Captain Walker was busy buying and selling horses. In 1844 he sold his California horses either at Bent's Fork or Santa Fe. The rest of that season he spent guiding wagon trains. In 1844 alone, 1,475 overland trains made the trip to California and 53 trains to Oregon. By the summer of 1845, 3,000 settlers were on the trail...and the West was becoming the pioneer dream destination.
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This Day in History: On November 6, 1528, the Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas.. Starving, dehydrated, and desperate, he is the first European to set foot on the soil of the future Lone Star state.
Next time...Oil and Water
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
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