Download or read book Imperfect Union written by Steve Inskeep and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple 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 explorer, bestselling writer, gallant army officer, and latter-day conquistador, who in 1846 began the United States’s takeover of California from Mexico. He was not even 40 years old when Americans began naming mountains and towns after him. He had perfect timing, exploring the West just as it captured the nation’s attention. But the most important factor in his fame may have been the person who made it all possible: his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont. Jessie, the daughter of a United States senator who was deeply involved in the West, provided her husband with entrée to the highest levels of government and media, and his career reached new heights only a few months after their elopement. During a time when women were allowed to make few choices for themselves, Jessie – who herself aspired to roles in exploration and politics – threw her skill and passion into promoting her husband. She worked to carefully edit and publicize his accounts of his travels, attracted talented young men to his circle, and lashed out at his enemies. She became her husband’s political adviser, as well as a power player in her own right. In 1856, the famous couple strategized as John became the first-ever presidential nominee of the newly established Republican Party. With rare detail and in consummate style, Steve Inskeep tells the story of a couple whose joint ambitions and talents intertwined with those of the nascent United States itself. Taking advantage of expanding news media, aided by an increasingly literate public, the two linked their names to the three great national movements of the time—westward settlement, women’s rights, and opposition to slavery. Together, John and Jessie Frémont took parts in events that defined the country and gave rise to a new, more global America. Theirs is a surprisingly modern tale of ambition and fame; they lived in a time of social and technological disruption and divisive politics that foreshadowed our own. In Imperfect Union, as Inskeep navigates these deeply transformative years through Jessie and John’s own union, he reveals how the Frémonts’ adventures amount to nothing less than a tour of the early American soul.
Download or read book Pathfinder written by Tom Chaffin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Frémont that has appeared to date”—Howard R. Lamar, Yale University The career of John Charles Frémont (1813–90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and illuminates his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West. As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Frémont stood at the center of the vast federal project of western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public's imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation's destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder. But Frémont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's dramatic narrative includes Frémont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Frémont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat. This new paperback edition of Pathfinder features a new, additional, updated introduction by the author.
Download or read book Traces of Fremont written by Steven R. Simms and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fascinating look at rock art through the lens of archeology and anthropology, offering an innovative model of Fremont society, politics, and worldview.
Download or read book Fremont Campaign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Young American s Life of Fremont written by Francis Channing Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book J C Fremont s Record Proof of His Romanism Proof of His Pro Slavery Acts Etc written by John Charles Frémont and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fremont National Forest N F Land and Resource s Management Plan LRMP written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Fremont and the Injustice Done Him by Politicians and Envious Military Men written by William Brotherhead and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final environmental impact statement for the land and resource management plan Fremont National Forest written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Col Fremont written by Horace Greeley and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Romish Intrigue Fremont a Catholic written by John Charles FRÉMONT and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fremont General Aviation Reliever Airport and Alternative Industrial Development proposed written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Col Fremont s Private and Public Character Vindicated by James Buchanan Who conquered California Important testimony of Hon James Buchanan in the Exchequer Gibbs v Fremont written by John Charles FRÉMONT and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Colonel Fremont written by John Charles FRÉMONT and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Col John Charles Fremont written by Samuel M. Smucker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Download or read book Thrilling Sketch of the Life of Col J C Fremont with an account of his expedition to Oregon and California across the Rocky Mountains and the discovery of the great gold mines written by Thomas Hart BENTON (United States Senator.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Descriptive of Colonel Fremont s Overland Route to Oregon and California as surveyed for the United States Government Fourth edition written by John Charles Frémont and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
