Pathfinder - John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire (Paperback)

"The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Fremont that has appeared to date"--Howard R. Lamar, Yale University
The career of John Charles Fremont (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 Fremont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and illuminates his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West.
As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Fremont stood at the center of the 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.
But Fremont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's dramatic narrative includes Fremont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Fremont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat.
This new paperback edition of Pathfinder features a new, additional, updated introduction by the author.

General

Imprint:	University of Oklahoma Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2014
First published:	April 2014
Authors:	Tom Chaffin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	612
ISBN-13:	978-0-8061-4474-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8061-4474-2
Barcode:	9780806144740

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