The romance of American expansion . man. A frequent visitor to Bentonshouse, he there met and became deeply enamoredof Bentons daughter Jessie, still in her teens, beau-tiful, imaginative, proud, and ambitious. She, forher part, found in Fremont the ideal of her opposition, on the score of the young offi-cers poverty and scant prospect of advancement,only strengthened their love, and after a stormycourtship they were married in 1841. For a timeBenton raged. Then he surrendered at presently Fremont was in the wilderness oncemore, engaged in the important task of f
The romance of American expansion . man. A frequent visitor to Bentonshouse, he there met and became deeply enamoredof Bentons daughter Jessie, still in her teens, beau-tiful, imaginative, proud, and ambitious. She, forher part, found in Fremont the ideal of her opposition, on the score of the young offi-cers poverty and scant prospect of advancement,only strengthened their love, and after a stormycourtship they were married in 1841. For a timeBenton raged. Then he surrendered at presently Fremont was in the wilderness oncemore, engaged in the important task of fixing adirect route for immigration to Oregon. It wasa project dear to Bentons heart, and a splendidopportunity for Bentons son-in-law. So well didhe utilize it that, after a summer of hardships andachievements, the most noteworthy of which wasthe hazardous planting of the Stars and Stripes on asky-challenging Rocky Mountain summit, he washailed as among the greatest of modern was in 1842. The next year he was again. John Charles Fremont JOHN CHARLES FREMONT 145 at the head of an exploring expedition, under ordersto cross the Rockies and penetrate through Oregonto the shores of the Pacific. Outward bound allwent well, but on his way home, deceived by errone-ous reports as to the feasibility of the route he hadselected, he and his exhausted followers were drivenfar to the south by snow and storm and impassablemountains. Unable to secure a guide, they wan-dered for months over the heights and through thedepths of the Sierra Nevada, finally reaching theSacramento Valley after terrific sufferings and whenhope was all but gone. Here they were hospitablyreceived by the generous Sutter, and here Fremontobtained his first glimpse of the glories of , doubtless, if not before, he began to dream offinding a route by which to connect this westernparadise with the far-away frontier settlements ofhis own country; and such was actually one of theprincipal objects
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