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1) Snowbound
Author
Language
English
Description
This novel is based on the experience of American explorer John Frm̌ont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, when he becomes trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains and must fight his way out.
2) Dream West
Author
Series
American story 1800-1860 volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The classic New York Times bestseller back in print for a new generation Telling the amazing true story of famed explorer, John Charles Fremont, and his beloved supporter and muse, Jessie Benton, Dream West made the New York Times bestseller list and became a CBS mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain. Now available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Nevin`s epic of adventure and discovery displays the passion of an early explorer`s dream...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple. John Frémont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a nobody. Yet, by the 1840s, he rose to...
19) John C. Frémont
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century soldier, politician, and explorer whose many expeditions helped open up the American West to settlers.
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