Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California, in the years 1843-44 / John Charles Fremont.
Published together in 1846 for a British readership, these reports of two westward expeditions shed light on the challenges of exploration in nineteenth-century North America. Led by the army officer and future presidential candidate John Charles Frémont (1813-90), who became known as 'the Pat...
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Narrative of an exploration of the country lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, on the line of the Kansas and Great Platte rivers.
- Astronomical observations (p. 90-92)
- Narrative of the exploring expedition to Oregon and north California.
- Table of distances along the road travelled by the expedition in 1843-44.