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02082 Statement. In 1841, before Fremont had seen or named Great Salt Lake, Humboldt, Carson or Walker's rivers, or, so
far as I know, before any white man had ever crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains, I crossed the plains to California and saw
them all. The party I came with consisted of thirty two men one woman and child Bidwell 02082 2 We struck a stream
and ascended it to the eastern base of said mountains. This proved to be what is now known as Walker's river, which was named
by Fremont in 1845 after a noted Rocky Mountain trapper, Jo Walker. There we scaled the now famous Sierra Nevada. and first
struck waters flowing west. The stream