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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971. Fremont, pathmarker of the West. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1992 (DLC) 91040734 (OCoLC)24848348 |
Named Person: | John Charles Frémont; John Charles Frémont |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Allan Nevins |
ISBN: | 0585305862 9780585305868 |
OCLC Number: | 45727583 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 689 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Charleston Boyhood -- An Explorer's Training -- First View of the Great West -- Washington Courtship -- A Runaway Marriage -- The Stakes of the West -- The First Expedition -- South Pass and Fremont's Peak -- The First Report -- The Second Expedition: Outward Bound -- Over the Winter Sierras -- Sutter's Fort and California -- Homeward Over the Rockies -- Washington Expansionists and the Far West -- The Third Expedition -- A Clash With Californians -- The Message From Gillespie -- The Bear Flag Outbreak -- The California Battalion -- The Quarrel With Kearny -- A Famous Court-Martial -- Starvation and Cannibalism -- Golconda and the Senate -- Managing the Mariposas -- The Fifth Expedition -- The Republican Nomination -- The Campaign of 1856 -- New Mariposa Troubles -- Civil War in the West -- Fremont vs. Blair and Lincoln -- The End of the "Hundred Days" -- The Mountain Department -- The Defeat of the Blairs -- A Financial Debacle -- Poverty and Labor -- Character and Fame -- Some New Light on Fremont -- Fremont's Children -- Corruption in St. Louis, 1861 -- E.M. Kern's Letter. |
Responsibility: | by Allan Nevins. |
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"A contribution of first-rate significance to the history of the United States in the nineteenth century."-Springfield Republican * Springfield Republican * "If this is not Fremont, it is as near to him as anyone is likely to get."-Books * Books * "[Nevins] has . . . raised biography to the level of literature."-Christian Science Monitor * Christian Science Monitor * "This biography merits the adjective definitive. . . . is a book at once distinguished and engaging.''-New York Times * New York Times * Read more...


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