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Walker, Don Travis, 1939-2013

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Don Travis Walker (1939-2013) was a photographer and Nevada historian. Walker was born June 3, 1939, in Hugo, Oklahoma to J.T. Walker and Anna Mae Richards. He received his college degree from Langston University in 1963 and served in the U.S. Navy in 1963. After his discharge from the Navy, Walker worked at the Nevada Test Site as a communications firefighter specialist for 44 years until his retirement in 2007. Starting in the late 1980s, Walker began photographing various ghost towns throughout Nevada, Arizona, and California. Walker died August 16, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.