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Pathfinder – John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire
As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Frémont stood at the center of a vast federal project of western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public’s imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation’s destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder.
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Pathfinder – John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire
The Career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin’s biography demonstrates Frémont’s vital importance to the history of American empire, and his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West.
ISBN – 978-0-8061-4474-0
559 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014