Imperfect union : how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War

"John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the age – known as a wilderness exp...

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Main Author: Inskeep, Steve
Format: BOOK
Other Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Penguin Press 2020
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