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| Named Person: | Jessie Benton Frémont; John Charles Frémont |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine Coffin Phillips |
| ISBN: | 0803287402 9780803287402 |
| OCLC Number: | 31605416 |
| Notes: | Previously published: San Francisco : J.H. Nash, 1935. |
| Description: | xi, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Widow Benton's settlement -- "Colonel McDowell's to the mountain top" -- Washington childhood -- Elopement -- Jessie Frémont, topographical reporter -- Government orders in a sewing basket -- "All of which I saw and part of which I was" -- Under the gun of Frémont's court-martial -- Forty-Niner via Panama -- In search of health -- Wife of the first senator from California -- Guest at the courts of England and France -- "Our Jessie," the toast of the nation -- Life at Mariposa and Black Point -- Civil War duty, Western Department -- "There is a time to do and a time to stand aside" -- Pocaho Salon -- Governor's lady -- Los Angeles retreat -- Chapter's end. |
| Responsibility: | by Catherine Coffin Phillips ; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Christine Bold. |
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