Pathfinder
Subtitle: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: May 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780809075560
Subjects: United States - 19th Century; Military; Discovery And Exploration (General); U.S. History - Constitutional Period To Civil War (1789-1860); History; Biography / Autobiography; History: American; Adventurers & Explorers; Historical - U.S.; Biography & Autobiography / General
First sentence: JOHN CHARLES FREMONT lived a life whose epic breadth, romantic aura, and dramatic bends and curves resembled that of a character invented by, say, Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Conrador, better yet, James Fenimore Cooper.