Fremont: Pathmarker of the West

One of the most controversial and romantic figures in American history, John C. Fr mont experienced a dizzying succession of public triumphs and humiliations. He made his name exploring the West, surveying, mapping, and describing the Rockies, the Great Basin, and Oregon country. Allan Nevins gives Fr mont full credit for his achievements as a topographer, soldier, and politician while noting how often his rashness attracted enemies and led to his downfall: to a court-martial for disobeying orders during the Bear Flag Rebellion, to a disastrous winter expedition in the San Juan Mountains, to his defeat as the first presidential candidate of the Republican party, to the loss of his Civil War command. Through sickness and health, poverty and wealth, his wife, the vivacious Jessie Benton Fr mont, stood by him. Their enduring romance occupies much more than the background in this absorbing story of his life.

The dean of American historians, Allan Nevins won the Pulitzer Prize for his biographies of Grover Cleveland and Hamilton Fish.

Author: Allan Nevins
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 02/01/1992
Pages: 697
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 7.46h x 5.64w x 1.67d
ISBN13: 9780803283640
ISBN10: 0803283644
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | United States | 19th Century

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