Joseph Reddeford Walker Quotes
Fremont, morally and physically, was the most complete coward I ever knew … I would say he was timid as a woman if it were not casting an unmerited reproach on that sex.
It was as an Army Scout at Hawk’s Peak that Walker knew Fremont
Joseph Reddeford Walker, Mountain Man & Explorer, Army Scout, Negative opinion of John C. Fremont, Quoted in David Roberts, A Newer World
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Describing his relations with his 1980 Democratic opponent, Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman:
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Armstrong rarely commented on politics (see {615854}), but the Governor defying the Supreme Court and not letting his people even go to school with other students was too much for him. He not only made the statement, but he approved it for publication. This shocked many who knew him as an apolitical person. He was particularly distressed with President Eisenhower who although he had warned Faubus that he would enforce the court order and then used federal troops to do so, Eisenhower was a man of action and not rhetoric and his lack of firm public statements overlooked an opportunity to use the Presidential “bully pulpit” and exercise his moral leadership and authority. Many then, and even 50 years later, were not sure where he stood on the issue of school desegregation.
Joseph R. Walker was a mountain man and experienced scout. He established the segment of the California Trail, the primary route for the emigrants to the gold fields during the California gold rush, from Fort Hall, Idaho to the Truckee River. The Walker River and Walker Lake in Nevada were named for him by John C. Frémont.
