Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . Southern in the wilds, at times with the Indians, was nowtheir occupation. Amid such scenes the future explorerreceived his prenatal impressions and influences, for it wasin the prosecution of these journeys that he was bom duringa stop at Savannah, Georgia, January 21, 1813. In thissame year of his birth, another person of immediate import-ance to his life and to this narrative comes briefly into theFremont horizon. This was
Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . Southern in the wilds, at times with the Indians, was nowtheir occupation. Amid such scenes the future explorerreceived his prenatal impressions and influences, for it wasin the prosecution of these journeys that he was bom duringa stop at Savannah, Georgia, January 21, 1813. In thissame year of his birth, another person of immediate import-ance to his life and to this narrative comes briefly into theFremont horizon. This was a young man of thirty-one,already a notable figure in the political arena of the country,and destined to become far more prominent during the wholeof a long career: Thomas H. Benton. After breakfast onthe morning of September 4, 1813, this brilliant young manhad his historic encounter with the fiery Andrew Jackson,future President of the United States, then forty-six years ofage. In Bigelows excellent Life of Fremont he mentionsthat the parents chanced to pass the night previous to thisaffray at the inn where it took place, the balls from the pis-. I .-1 £ !. ^fc Thomas H. Benton 5 tols going through the room in which they happened to besitting. This inn was the City Hotel, where Benton andhis brother Jesse, the cause of the trouble, had stopped toavoid direct contact with Jackson who was at the other hotel,the Nashville Inn, across the square. But Jackson wasbent on battle and sought the Bentons at the first oppor-tunity. This ill-feeling between the former friends aroseover Jacksons having acted as opposing second in a duelin which Bentons brother was involved, during Bentonsabsence on business of Jacksons. Benton had denouncedJackson in violent terms, Jackson had sworn to horsewhiphim, and the denouement was the above conflict. Jacksonand Benton became friends again in after years. Fremont was seven months and ten days old at thismoment, but the man who was to be so close
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