Pathfinder John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire |
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Author:
| Chaffin, Tom |
ISBN: | 978-0-8090-7557-7 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2002 |
Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Imprint: | Hill & Wang |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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The amazing life of the explorer who first mapped the West and forever changed nineteenth-century America The career of John Charles Frimont (1813-90) celebrates and ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age.
The amazing life of the explorer who first mapped the West and forever changed nineteenth-century America The career of John Charles Frimont (1813-90) celebrates and ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age.