Frémont's first impressions : the original report of his exploring expeditions of 1842-1844 / John C. Frémont ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Anne F. Hyde.

Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-'44

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080327145X (electronic bk.)
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6613866547

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2012]

©2012

English

English.

1 online resource (xxvi, 366 pages)

F592 .F874 2012eb

(OCoLC)810933446

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.

Originally published under title: Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-'44. Washington, D.C. : Gales and Seaton, 1845.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Print version: Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890. Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-'44. Frémont's first impressions. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012

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