Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill pays more attention to the power project, although the plant was originally planned for its nitrate development. Farm aid is now more logically a secondary factor and the power the primary object. Such a power centre is needed in the middle west and if the Senate puts the bill through it will be seizing an opportunity to utilize a white elephant by making him earn his living...
...year-old daughter of irascible Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. But the Senator objected to their marriage, so Frémont surveyed in Iowa before eloping with Jessie. Vexed though the Senator was, he forgave and made Frémont his willing tool to open up the vast West. The young couple were presented to President Tyler in "the greatest crush in the White House since President Jackson had exhibited Colonel Meacham's gigantic cheese...
...mont 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...
...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...
After the war, Frémont lived in luxury in Manhattan and Tarrytown, N. Y. (part of his estate was later owned by John D. Rockefeller). Then suddenly he lost all his wealth in a railroad scheme in the West. His wife wrote articles for newspapers and magazines. President Hayes appointed him territorial governor of Arizona in 1878 at a salary of $2,000 a year. In 1890, soon after the Army put him on the retired pay list, he died of a violent chill, in a Manhattan boarding house. Jessie lived until...