Author: LeRoy Reuben HafenPublisher: Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Fremont's Fourth Expedition
Author: LeRoy Reuben HafenPublisher: Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Pathfinder
Author: Tom ChaffinPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806146079
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
“The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Frémont that has appeared to date”—Howard R. Lamar, Yale University The career of John Charles Frémont (1813–90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and illuminates his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West. As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Frémont stood at the center of the vast federal project of western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public's imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation's destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder. But Frémont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's dramatic narrative includes Frémont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Frémont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat. This new paperback edition of Pathfinder features a new, additional, updated introduction by the author.
Snowbound
Author: Richard S. WheelerPublisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1429945095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In this powerful biographical novel, Richard Wheeler—winner of the Owen Wister Lifetime Achievement Award and five Spur Awards—tells the amazing tale of the American explorer and hero, John Fremont, and his attempt to find a railway route to the west along the 38th parallel. Trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, Fremont must fight his way out. He battles the frigid elements in a harrowing journey over the backbone of the continent. In this tale of desperate danger and fierce courage, Wheeler presents the reader with a survival saga par excellence—a struggle of man against man, man against nature, man against himself—and a novel you will never forget. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Men and the Mountain
Author: William BrandonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The the deliberate intent of tackling the mountains in winter, William Brandon set out with thirty-five men, among them Alexis Godey and Old Bill Williams of mountain-men fame, and a hundred mules. On all sides the warnings were sharply insistent that this winter of 1848 would be one of the worst in history, and before the men came to the mountain, they had evidence of its brutal fury. The story of the ascent, when the men were bolstered by the conviction that they were marching hand in hand with History, and the descent, when they were dogged by defeat and its handmaidens of starvation and panic, contribute a revealing chapter to the study of human nature. Mr. Brandon is neither for nor against the questionable decisions made by Fremont. Instead, he gives a fresh interpretation of the record in vivid, documentary style. It's a controversial book, and one that should not be missed by anyone interested in the opening of the West.
The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont: Travels from 1838 to 1844
Author: John Charles FrémontPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1970-1980 .
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Frémont ...
Author: John BigelowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This book examines the life of John Charles Frémont, American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.
Fremont's Fourth Expedition
Author: Leroy R. HafenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258511432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
With Diaries, Letters, And Reports By Participants In The Tragedy. Far West And The Rockies Historical Series, 1820-1875, V11.
Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44
Author: John Charles FrémontPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Exploring with Frémont
Author: Charles PreussPublisher: Norman, U. of Oklahoma P
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Preuss was the cartographer on three of Frâemont's expeditions to explore the West. His maps provided the routes for the coming westward movement and growth of America.
Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44
Author: John Charles FrémontPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Describes the author explorations in the Oregon and California territory from 1842 to 1846. Contains detailed descriptions of the geography, botany, and other scientific findings of the regions.