TY - BOOK ID - 65557788 TI - Frémont's first impressions AU - Frémont, John Charles AU - Hyde, Anne Farrar PY - 2012 SN - 1283554097 9786613866547 080327145X 0803271352 9780803271456 9780803271357 9781283554091 6613866547 PB - Lincoln DB - UniCat KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Adventurers KW - Voyages and travels KW - West (U.S.) KW - Rocky Mountains KW - Pacific States KW - Pacific Coast States KW - Rockies KW - Rocky Mountain Front KW - Stoney Mountains KW - American West KW - Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) KW - United States, Western KW - Western States (U.S.) KW - Western United States KW - Discovery and exploration. KW - Description and travel. KW - Description and travel KW - Pacific and Mountain States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65557788 AB - In 1842 John C. Frémont led a party of twenty-five men on a five-month journey from Saint Louis to the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains; his goal: to chart the best route to Oregon. In 1843 Frémont was commissioned for another expedition, to explore the Great Salt Lake, Washington, eastern California, Carson Pass, and the San Joaquin Valley, places that did not yet belong to the United States.His journals from these expeditions, edited in collaboration with his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, and published by Congress, thrilled the nation and firmly established Frémont's persona as the ER -