Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skilled explorer or overreaching dilettante? Crusading abolitionist or violent murderer? General with the soul of a country on his ...
Take heart, UNLV fans: The Fremont cannon is back in Las Vegas. Only it’s the real one this time, not that navy-blue knockoff currently being held hostage by a certain Reno-based university. The ...
John Charles Frémont, a lieutenant in the Army Topographical Corps, was commissioned by the U. S. government to explore and map areas of the Pacific Northwest. In his second major land expedition, he ...
The following is from a presentation I gave for the Nevada State Museum tour guides when the Fremont artifacts were on display at the museum several years ago. One of my favorite characters in Nevada ...
Apprenticeship, 1813-41 -- The first expedition, spring 1842-fall 1842 -- The second expedition, spring 1843-winter 1845 -- The third expedition: summer 1845-winter 1846 -- Reckonings, 1847-54 -- For ...
In the fall of 1843, the exploration expedition of John C. Fremont accompanied by his guide, Kit Carson, entered Northern Nevada from Oregon, after reaching the Pacific Ocean from the Oregon Trail.
Solomon Nunes Carvalho was a Baltimore painter and fledgling photographer when John C. Fremont, contacted him in 1853 and asked Carvalho to join him on a journey across the West. Carvalho was to make ...
On Aug. 13, 1842, Charles Preuss — the cartographer on John Fremont’s mapping expedition of the Oregon Trail from the Missouri River to the Continental Divide — set up his materials deep in the Rocky ...
President James K. Polk refused to believe explorer John Fremont when they met at the White House in 1845 and Fremont told him there was no great river running westward from the Rocky Mountains to the ...
AS the Presidential campaign drew to a close just a century ago, the Republican Party, which was then only two years old, was generally conceded a fighting chance to win. To be sure, the odds were ...
On Aug. 13, 1842, Charles Preuss — the cartographer on John Fremont’s mapping expedition of the Oregon Trail from the Missouri River to the Continental Divide — set up his materials deep in the Rocky ...