Title Fremont, pathmarker of the West / by Allan Nevins

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 689 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Charleston Boyhood -- An Explorer's Training -- First View of the Great West -- Washington Courtship -- A Runaway Marriage -- The Stakes of the West -- The First Expedition -- South Pass and Fremont's Peak -- The First Report -- The Second Expedition: Outward Bound -- Over the Winter Sierras -- Sutter's Fort and California -- Homeward Over the Rockies -- Washington Expansionists and the Far West -- The Third Expedition -- A Clash With Californians -- The Message From Gillespie -- The Bear Flag Outbreak -- The California Battalion -- The Quarrel With Kearny -- A Famous Court-Martial -- Starvation and Cannibalism -- Golconda and the Senate -- Managing the Mariposas -- The Fifth Expedition -- The Republican Nomination -- The Campaign of 1856 -- New Mariposa Troubles -- Civil War in the West -- Fremont vs. Blair and Lincoln -- The End of the "Hundred Days" -- The Mountain Department -- The Defeat of the Blairs -- A Financial Debacle -- Poverty and Labor -- Character and Fame -- Some New Light on Fremont -- Fremont's Children -- Corruption in St. Louis, 1861 -- E.M. Kern's Letter Analysis Politics United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890. SUBJECT Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 fast Subject Explorers -- United States -- Biography Generals -- United States -- Biography Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. Explorers Generals Presidential candidates United States Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book ISBN 0585305862 9780585305868

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