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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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The Pathfinder
Author: The Pathfinder
Author: Nicholas LorePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451608322
Category : Career changes
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Pathfinder and the President
Author: John BicknellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780811776653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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.
Lincoln's Pathfinder
Author: John BicknellPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613738005
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The election of 1856 was the most violent peacetime election in American history. Amid all the violence, the campaign of the new Republican Party, headed by famed explorer John C. Frémont, offered a ray of hope that had never before been seen in the politics of the nation—a major party dedicated to limiting the spread of slavery. For the first time, women and African Americans became actively engaged in a presidential contest, and the candidate's wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, played a central role in both planning and executing strategy while being a public face of the campaign. The 1856 campaign was also run against the backdrop of a country on the move, with settlers continuing to spread westward facing unimagined horrors, a terrible natural disaster that took hundreds of lives in the South, and one of the most famous Supreme Court cases in history, which set the stage for the Civil War. Frémont lost, but his strong showing in the North proved that a sectional party could win a national election, blazing the trail for Abraham Lincoln's victory four years later.
Missouri School Journal
Author: Pathfinder
Author: Gun BrookePublisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1626394652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Following the Advance team, the Exodus ship heads toward a new homeworld. Here they will build a future without the threat of mutated changers. Chief Engineer Adina Vantressa, responsible for keeping the Exodus vessel operational, stays far away from her vast family. She doesn?t trust them. Nurse Briar Lindemay shares a secret with her younger sister Caya, an unregistered changer whom Briar has unlawfully brought with her aboard Exodus. Adina and Briar meet, and their attraction grows despite their attempts to stay apart. Briar fears that acting on her feelings will take her focus from Caya. Adina?s emotional scars hinder her, but she can?t ignore how Briar makes her feel. When disaster strikes and the only way to save the Exodus is to trust what the people aboard fear most, will the authorities listen? Or is the journey over and everything lost?
The "Pathfinder's" Great Flight
Author: John Prentice LangleyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Lincoln and His World
Author: Richard Lawrence MillerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786488123
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In the climax of Richard Lawrence Miller's epic four-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln's pre-presidential years, a blunder by the proponents of slavery propels Lincoln toward the White House. Initially, passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act seems to be a victory for the South, opening the American West to slavery. Ultimately, however, the North rises in anger, with Lincoln helping to fan the flames of rage. Before the first shot of the Civil War is fired, the ambitious westerner is transformed, seeking more power yet, but wielding it in defense of the American dream. His dedication and dependability set him apart from his Republican competitors and help him secure his party's presidential nomination in 1860. With this installment, the most detailed and comprehensive biography of a pre-presidential Abraham Lincoln in the past 100 years comes to its conclusion.