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Author: John Charles Fremont (Explorateur, Homme politique, Etats-Unis)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252000874
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Author: John Charles Fremont (Explorateur, Homme politique, Etats-Unis)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252000874
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Author: Donald Jackson
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Languages : en
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Author: John Charles Frémont
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Author: John Charles Frémont
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1970-1980 .
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Author: John Charles Frémont
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
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Author: John Bigelow
Publisher: New York : Derby & Jackson ; Cincinnati : H.W. Derby
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Author: Mary Lee Spence
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ISBN: 9780252015045
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Languages : en
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Author: Donald Jackson
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Author: John C. Frémont
Publisher: Bison Books
ISBN: 9780803271357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In 1842 John C. Frémont led a party of twenty-five men on a five-month journey from Saint Louis to the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains; his goal: to chart the best route to Oregon. In 1843 Frémont was commissioned for another expedition, to explore the Great Salt Lake, Washington, eastern California, Carson Pass, and the San Joaquin Valley, places that did not yet belong to the United States. His journals from these expeditions, edited in collaboration with his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, and published by Congress, thrilled the nation and firmly established Frémont’s persona as the Great Pathfinder. Part descriptive survey, part rousing adventure story, Frémont’s account was far more than a traveler’s guide. His tales of courage and wit, descriptions of beautiful landscapes, and observations about Native Americans strengthened Americans’ sense of a national identity and belief in Manifest Destiny. Still a fascinating page-turner today, Frémont’s report documents the opening of the West even as it offers a firsthand look at the making of the American myth. Anne F. Hyde provides an introduction to this signature American story that contextualizes the report, outlines Frémont’s rise and fall, and shows how, for better or worse, this explorer exemplifies the nineteenth-century American spirit.
Author: Andrew F. Rolle
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806131351
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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As an explorer, John Charles Frémont led five expeditions into the American West--two of them disastrous. He was also one of California’s first two senators (1850), America’s first Republican candidate for president (1856), a Civil War general, and the territorial governor of Arizona (1878-83). But his life was one of rash and rebellious conduct against authority. During the Mexican War he claimed to be the military governor of California, which resulted in a court-martial in 1848. At the outbreak of the Civil War he reentered the army as one of four major generals, outranking even Ulysses S. Grant. However, when he antagonized President Abraham Lincoln by issuing his own emancipation proclamation in advance of the president’s, Lincoln relieved him of command. In this comprehensive biography, Andrew Rolle carefully examines the historical record with a psychobiographical approach that explores and explains the many irrationalities of Frémont’s character.
