Title: The  crossing of the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1843-44
Description: THE CROSSING describes the route of Frémont's 2nd Expedition from Bridgeport to Sutter's fort in the winter of 1844.
Each day of forty-one days of winter crossing of the Sierra Nevada contains all the text from that day of Frémont's Report to Congress.
It also contains all the text from the same day from the diary of Charles Preuss, and from the autobiography of Kit Carson.
Subjects: Description and travel, Discovery and exploration, History, Washoe Indians, barometry, celestial navigation
Places: California, Carson Pass, Lake Tahoe, New Helvetia, Sacramento, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
People: Charles Preuss, John Charles Fremont, John Sutter, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick
Time periods: 1844, January-March, To 1846