Fremont Pathmarker Of The West
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Fremont Pathmarker Of The West
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Author : Allan Nevins
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Fremont Pathmarker Of The West written by Allan Nevins and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with History categories.
One of the most controversial and romantic figures in American history, John C. Främont 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 Främont 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 Främont, 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.
Fr Mont Pathmarker Of The West
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Author : Allan Nevins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Fr Mont Pathmarker Of The West written by Allan Nevins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with categories.
Fremont Pathmarker Of The West Vol 2
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Author : Allan Nevins
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-21
Fremont Pathmarker Of The West Vol 2 written by Allan Nevins and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-21 with categories.
Excerpt from Fremont, Pathmarker of the West, Vol. 2: Fremont in the Civil War They were not going out, however, as mere emigrants. Jes sie was accompanying him only as far west as Westport on the Missouri, when she would turn back and take a ship to California by the Panama route. F remont would meanwhile as sume command of a new exploring expedition to cross the Rockies by a southern pass. Nothing shows better the buoyant courage of the man than the fact that, a few months after the court-martial, he had organized his own fourth expedition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Fremont In The Civil War
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Author : Allan Nevins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-06
Fremont In The Civil War written by Allan Nevins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06 with categories.
In Two Volumes. Volume 1, Fremont, The Explorer; Volume 2, Fremont In The Civil War.
Imperfect Union
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Author : Steve Inskeep
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-01-14
Imperfect Union written by Steve Inskeep and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
From The Golden Gate To Mexico City
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Author : Adrian George Traas
language : en
Publisher: Army
Release Date : 1993
From The Golden Gate To Mexico City written by Adrian George Traas and has been published by Army this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Lincoln And His Generals
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Author : T. Harry Williams
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-07-27
Lincoln And His Generals written by T. Harry Williams and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with History categories.
Since it was first published in 1952, Lincoln and His Generals has remained one of the definitive accounts of Lincoln’s wartime leadership. In it T. Harry Williams dramatizes Lincoln’s long and frustrating search for an effective leader of the Union Army and traces his transformation from a politician with little military knowledge into a master strategist of the Civil War. Explored in depth are Lincoln’s often fraught relationships with generals such as McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Fremont, and of course, Ulysses S. Grant. In this superbly written narrative, Williams demonstrates how Lincoln’s persistent “meddling” into military affairs was crucial to the Northern war effort and utterly transformed the president’s role as commander-in-chief.
The Inside Man
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Author : Salvador A. Ramirez
language : en
Publisher: Salvador A. Ramirez
Release Date : 2007
The Inside Man written by Salvador A. Ramirez and has been published by Salvador A. Ramirez this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with California categories.
The Inside Man is the culmination of more than seventeen years of groundbreaking, meticulous, and exhaustive research into the life of this least known or understood of the "Big Five" who built the western end of the first transcontinental railroad. Drawn from original sources most of which have hitherto been inaccessible or ignored by previous chroniclers-thousands of pages of handwritten letters, telegrams, accounts from scores of newspapers archived around the country, including biographical and historical works-are brought to bear in this monumental account. More than the biography of one individual, this masterful account weaves within the narrative the many forces and competing issues faced by Mark Hopkins and his associates as well as the culture and mores of late nineteenth century California, and their very personal struggles and conflicts.
History Of The Sierra Nevada
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Author : Francis Peloubet Farquhar
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1965
History Of The Sierra Nevada written by Francis Peloubet Farquhar and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with History categories.
Panorama of human experiences in California's "great snowy range", including the Yosemite, Mt. Whitney, and Lake Tahoe areas, from its sighting by Spaniards to the present.
The Frontier Army In The Settlement Of The West
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Author : Michael L. Tate
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1999
The Frontier Army In The Settlement Of The West written by Michael L. Tate and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
A reassessment of the military's role in developing the Western territories moves beyond combat stories and stereotypes to focus on more non-martial accomplishments such as exploration, gathering scientific data, and building towns.