Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . nting by Fagnani. Painted in New York about 1856. San Francisco in the 50s 413 Painted by G. W. by W. L. Ormsby. Early Sacramento ....... 429 From the Print Collection, New York Library. Little Fire Hole Falls . ... 438 Characteristic of hundreds of Rocky Mountain by United States Geological Survey. Early San Francisco ...... 455 From Meyers Universum. Colonel Fremont Riding the Abolition Nag, LedBY Sewa
Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . nting by Fagnani. Painted in New York about 1856. San Francisco in the 50s 413 Painted by G. W. by W. L. Ormsby. Early Sacramento ....... 429 From the Print Collection, New York Library. Little Fire Hole Falls . ... 438 Characteristic of hundreds of Rocky Mountain by United States Geological Survey. Early San Francisco ...... 455 From Meyers Universum. Colonel Fremont Riding the Abolition Nag, LedBY Seward to Salt River ..... 459 An example of the campaign cartoons of 1856, when Fremont ranagainst two other candidates, Buchanan and Fillmore, for Presi-dent of the United States. Print Collection, New York Library. Portrait of General Fremont .... 470 From a painting in 1862 by Alonzo Chappell after a recent photo-graph. Monument to General Fremont .... 481 Piermont, New York, Rockland 1906 by the State of New by F. S. Dellenbaugh, 1913. Note.—The cover and the head- and tail-pieces are from drawingsby the Fremont and 49 CHAPTER I PREPARATION A Scientific Pathfinder—His Father and Mother—An Expulsion and a Recom-pense—A Foreign Cruise—Beginning Life in the Open—Jean NicolasNicollet, the Man of Science—Superior Instruction in Mapwork—Loveat First Sight—An Elopement—On the Threshold. EACH particular incident in the history of a country isgenerally linked with the name of some single promi-nent person, who represents, in the popular estimateat least, the success or failure of that incident, though as arule human affairs are not so simple as this and many otherindividuals are concerned, some even more vitally than theaccepted representative. In this way our acquisition ofCalifornia is laid mainly to the enterprise and skill of JohnCharles Fremont, who was active in the circumstances of theconquest, and who so felicitousl
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