The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-19
LIEUT.. FREMONT'S EXPEDITION.
We find the following notice Of this expedition.

We find the following notice Of this expedition,
just returned to St. Louis, in the Daily Missou-
rian:
The party, it will be remembered, left this city
on the 18Th of May, le43-very nearly fifteen
months ago--and by the latter part of that month
they passed the western boundary of Missouri
and launched out into the praries.
Leaving the frontier in the beginning of June,
and travelling along the line of the Kansas river,
the party reached the Rocky Mountains early in
July, and occupied that month in exploring the
heads Of the Arkansas. Al the close uf the month
they crossed the mountains, and continued their
way to the westward, and reached the Great Salt
Lake in the beginning of September. No hu.
man being had ever before visited the island of
this celebrated lakeland few weeks were spent
in its unknown waters, and in surveying the ad-
jacent country. The latter part of this month
found them at Fort Hall, where the winter set in
early with a severe storm, on the 18th.
Pursuing their way on the Oregon road, they
reached the DaIIs of the Columbia early in the
month of November Leaving his party here
Mr.. Fremont proceeded by water to Fort Van
couver, at which place he arrived at the COM
mencement OF the rainy season. On the 25th of
November, in snow storm, they left the "Dalls"
on their homeward route, intending to return by
way of the Kamet and St Marys Lake. No in
terruptons in the form of difficulties occurred TO
impede their march until they had passed the
Klamet Lake, in the middle of December, when
their course to the southwark and eastward was
barred by parallel ranges of snow and volcanic
mountains, in the valley Of which they were Fore
ed constantly to the southwark. making little or
no casting.
They travelled in this way along the eastern
base of the great California mountains, whose
peaks rise seventeen thousand feet above the sea,
encountering many bands Of Indians of a very
wild character, and some of whom had never be-
fore seen a white man. Towards the end of jan
uary, their animals feet had become SO much
worn by the ice and rocks, that they we're scarcely
able to travel; and provisions had begun to fail,
as the country had been found destitute of game
the Indians subsstng on fish, or roots and seeds
They were now between The 80 deg. and 80 deg.
parallel, immediately under the snowy range of
California. Mr.. Fremont determined to attempt
TO this, and to force way to the settlement
on the Bay of San Francisco The mountain is
here one hundred and fifty miles broad, and, on
it's upper regions the snow was from five to
twenty feet deep. They were occupied nearly a
month in CRUISING it, but finally succeeded, and
early in March exchanged the snow OF mid win
ter for the verdure Of perpetual spring, in the
valley Of the river Sacramento. sEn
The party were cordially received and hospit-
ably entertained, at his residence, near the Bay
of San Francisco. by John A. Suffer, Esq, Pre-
feet Of the frontier Of California. Here they re-
NAMED some time to recruit; and at the end of
March resumed their homeward journey. They
proceeded several degrees TO the southwark to
re-cross the mountains, and, passing over the
California deserts by the Span Trace, reached
Bent's Fort. by way of the head waters of the
Arkansas, on the first day of July, and the from
tier OF Missouri on the last of the same month.