Frosty Walker, Virginia City Living Legend

Frosty Walker, Chief Information Security Officer for the Secretary of State of Texas has a particularly intriguing secret identity; he is also known as Captain Walker, an 1880s Texas Ranger. Walker is part of the Virginia City, Nevada, Living Legends program where he is a trained docent in the community acting as an ambassador to visitors and tourists in the area.

Walker, a Texas native and resident, first visited the Virginia City area about 12 years ago with his wife Debbie. She and her sister Mindy used to pass through the region often with her parents on family trips from Kansas City to California. The sister’s parents enjoyed visiting the celebrated mining town where Debbie and Mindy would play on the wooden sidewalks astheir father would enjoy the rich history while their mom gambled.

I first met Walker while attending an event in the close-knit community not far from Reno, in the early spring of this year. He and Debbie, Mindy and her husband, Bob, and a few of their other close friends, were staying at the St. Mary’s Regional Art Center. They allowed me to take a room with them and crash their party within a party.

Debbie and Frosty Walker

This group, known collectively as “The Texans” treated me like family, ensuring I had rides to the events, making certain I had breakfast with the group, and even helping me with my corset when we all dressed in period clothing for the occasion.

As I spoke (sometimes even listening) to the group throughout