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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FRéEMONT-THE WEST'S GREATEST ADVENTURER-Allan Nevins-Harpers (two vols...
...might have been U. S. President during the Civil War, or built a fortune as big as the Rockefellers' or outshone Sam Houston, Dewey and Lindbergh as heroes. But ask the man-on-the-street today who John Charles Frémont was, and the answer will probably be: "The name sounds familiar, but I can't quite place...
Thus almost lost to fame is the most exciting and excitable figure that ever trod the soil of North America. Frémont was, characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver...
...Frémont went West with famed Kit Carson, observed buffalo, ate dog meat, charted the Continental Divide. Returning to Washington where Jessie lay in childbirth, he spread over her bed a ragged flag, said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...bouts tonight F. R. Sullivan '27 will box R. P. Russman '30 for the Championship of the 115-pound class. In the 125-pound class F. R. Sullivan will be opposed by A. Korb '30, and A. Gordon '27 will oppose R. W. Hale Fr. '30. The 135-pound division will be represented by J. J. McGinty 1L against R. M. Goldwater, Sp. L and W. W. Kieselhorst 2 G.B. against E. G. Dennis...