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Jessie Benton Frémont : a woman who made history

Author: Catherine Coffin Phillips
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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