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Edwin Francis Walker
Edwin Francis Walker (13 December 1872 in Chicago, Illinois – 3 December 1956, in Los Angeles, California) was a research assistant at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and later one of its most prolific investigators. Walker was a late bloomer as an archaeologist, launching this 22-year career when he was in his sixties, after long stints in garment retail and real estate.
==Early life==
Edwin, known as Ned, was the son of Francis Horton Walker and Marilla Antoinette Metcalf, he a real estate and publishing man, she a nurse, and both from old New England families. Marilla’s father, Mason Jerome Metcalf, was a Boston inventor of some note.The couple moved to Evanston, Ill. in 1870. Edwin was born two years later in Chicago.
In 1890, Edwin Francis Walker graduated from high school in Evanston. Five years later, by his own account, he set out from Albuquerque, N.M., to mine gold in the territories with three other men. Later, his childhood friend, Royce Armstrong, staked him and joined him in a 2,000-mile trek around the Southwest during which they mined for gold, explored ancient ruins, and had other adventures. For this trip, Walker may have drawn inspiration from Charles F. Lummis, who himself embarked on a walk or "tramp" from Cincinnati to Los Angeles in 1884-85, to assume an editor's post at the ''Los Angeles Times''. Walker’s own adventure produced no gold, but it did result in a later manuscript, ''1600 Mile Trip by Burro - Albuquerque to Los Angeles, 1895–1896,'' written in 1938 but not published until 1985, by the Tucson Corral of the Westerners. Edwin dedicated the tome to his two sons, Edwin Francis Jr. and Winslow Metcalf, whom he addresses in a long dedication that begins: "Here are the Western stories you listened to so respectfully, and so often, from the time you were able to sit up and take notice."
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