Word: mariposa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...starvation while some of his guides nibbled a human body. That was in 1849 when "time was worth fifty dollars a minute," but Frémont did not know it. He arrived in California to find gold-mad whitemen, redmen, yellowmen, blackmen, and himself the owner of the golden Mariposa veins. His wife came by boat and soon their home was filled with "hundred-pound buckskin sacks, worth not far from $25,000 each." California's richest man and most popular idol, Frémont was elected U. S. Senator. He spent little time in Washington and was defeated...
...mont went to California to look after his troublesome Mariposa properties, also made friends with Bret Harte who called Jessie a "fairy godmother." Then Lincoln was elected President and Civil War smouldered. Frémont became Commander of the Department of the West with headquarters in St. Louis. Missouri was a bed of sectional emotions; Frémont was a hot-headed commander; there were a "Hundred Days" of trouble. Lincoln removed him after he had declared martial law and prematurely emancipated the slaves in Missouri. He was given another chance as general in Virginia, but failed and fell...