Joseph R. Walker: Yosemite in 1833 and the Sawmill Abandoned at Owens Lake
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Joseph Rutherford Walker was born in Tennessee in 1798, moved with his family to Missouri in 181...
26 Okt 22min
Joseph Banks: The Endeavour Botanist Who Recorded the Word Kangaroo
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Joseph Banks was born in London in 1743 to a wealthy Lincolnshire squire and schooled at Harrow ...
26 Okt 22min
John Muir: Blinded in a Factory, He Became Yosemite's Glacier Prophet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1867 a file slipped in an Indianapolis wagon wheel factory and struck supervisor John Muir in...
26 Okt 25min
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.: Stock Pools, the First SEC Chief and a Secret
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was born in East Boston in 1888 to an Irish Catholic ward boss, became cla...
26 Okt 24min
Jim Brown: The NFL MVP Who Quit From a London Movie Set at 30
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jim Brown was born in 1936 on St. Simons Island, Georgia, raised by his grandmother and moved at...
26 Okt 20min
Jim Bridger: The Illiterate Trapper Whose Route Became Interstate 80
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!James Felix Bridger was born in Virginia in 1804, moved with his family near St. Louis and was a...
26 Okt 23min
Jedediah Smith: A Sewn-On Ear, South Pass and Two Crossings of the Mojave
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jedediah Smith, born in 1799 to a New England family of modest means, clerked on a Lake Erie fre...
26 Okt 23min
Jean Lafitte: Barataria Smuggler, Battle of New Orleans Ally, Spanish Spy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jean Lafitte's birth around 1780 is disputed, with claims for France, Saint-Domingue and a Sepha...
26 Okt 26min
