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Sight Unseen : How Fremont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape

Paperback • 2012 • English

Sight Unseen : How Fremont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape

By Andrew Menard

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About the book

John C. Fremont was the most celebrated explorer of his era. In 1842, on the first of five expeditions he would lead to the Far West, Fremont and a small party of men journeyed up the Kansas and Platte Rivers to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. At the time, virtually this entire region was known as the Great Desert, and many Americans viewed it and the Rocky Mountains beyond as natural barriers to the United States. After Congress published Fremont's official report of the expedition, however, f...Show more

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ISBN

9780803238077

Publisher

Lincoln, NE, USA : UNP - Bison Original

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Sight Unseen : How Fremont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape

Format

Paperback

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