Captain Walker and his men proceeded from Sunset Crater and crossed the Little Colorado River, turned north to the Moquis where they spend an instructive and agreeable week with the Hopis. Walker was impressed with their mesa topped villages, their architecture, their arts and crafts, and especially their character. "They were neat, clean, always keeping 2 or 3 years worth of provisions laid up for fear of famine" he recorded. Captain Walker continued eastward to the Rio Grande, then Albuquerque in June of 1851. Captain Joe then went alone to Santa Fe in the summer where he met up with old friend, Kit Carson. He looked into the local market for livestock, but found it not very attractive.
In November, Walker started back to California with a few men, traveling a well established caravan trail. Is Captain Joe about ready to retire from the life of a mountain man? Is this his last trek in the western wilderness?
Next time...Railroad Consultant?
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This Day in History: On December 15, 1890, the great Sioux chief and holy man Sitting Bull is killed by Indian police at the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota, after many years of successfully resisting white efforts to destroy him and the Sioux people.
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