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NARRATIVES OF EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE (532 pp.)-John Charles Frémonf, edlted with an Introduction by Allan Nevins-Longmans, Green...
...mountains. He was the first man nom inated for the presidency by a Republican convention, but he did not bother to campaign actively, and he lost to James Buchanan in 1856. His business ventures were disastrous. Toward the end (which came in 1890), only the writing of Jessie Frémont, one of history's sturdiest examples of the devoted wife, kept the two from want...
Helpful Wife. But of the many Frémonts imprisoned in the single man, there is one who survives with rare appeal: the young explorer who "saw visions," led expeditions to the West which made him a popular hero and brought back information so precise and engagingly written that the passage of more than a century has hardly affected its freshness. Fremont was a young officer in the Army Topographical Corps when he headed his first three Far Western expeditions in the 1840s. His reports to the Government were written with the help of his talented wife; the first...
Absent from bookshops for decades, the first two reports, as well as a third that was incorporated in Frémont's Memoirs, have now been knowledgeably edited by Historian Allan Nevins, who is the best of Féemont's biographers. That they constitute one of the great source books of U.S. history is obvious. But it is as vastly enjoyable armchair adventure that Narratives of Exploration and Adventure can be put into the hands of anyone capable of being stirred by great undertakings. Georgia-born Engineer Frémont, intelligent and fearless as well...
...unmapped country where Indians were apt at any time to take the warpath, Frémont persisted in carrying out his mission to the letter. When the Indians tried to use bluff, he bluffed back, and won. He won and kept for a lifetime the regard of Kit Carson and other mighty mountain men-proof enough that he had the courage and frontier skills to go with his looks and brains...