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Fremont's Greatest Western Exploration Volume 1: The Dalles to Pyramid Lake

by John L. Stewart

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This Report to the Congress detailed Fremont's expedition of 1843-44. It is written in his own words with the present author's comments, clarifications, and detailed maps. The original was made highly readable through the efforts of Fremont's collaborator and young wife, Jessie. The path from Kansas to the Columbia River is mostly in the present author's words. From the Dalles to Fort Vancouver and return is in Fremont's words. Although not first to follow this route, his observations are nevertheless descriptive and original. The route south from the Dalles covered unknown territory, meeting Indians who may not previously have seen white men. He passed through the Klamath Marsh. He then turned east to Winter Ridge, Summer Lake, and on the Lake Abert, all of which he named. He turned south through western Nevada to Pyramid Lake (which he also named) with a sumptuous feast on salmon trout with Indians. Volume 2 describes travels from there, past Reno and Carson City and over the Sierra at Carson Pass, south through the central California valleys, over the Tehachapi pass to the desert, through Las Vegas, and up the Virgin River into Utah and Utah Lake where we end the word for word commentary. His principal aid and confidant was Christopher Kit Carson whose enduring fame was largely the result of this particular expedition.… (more)
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This Report to the Congress detailed Fremont's expedition of 1843-44. It is written in his own words with the present author's comments, clarifications, and detailed maps. The original was made highly readable through the efforts of Fremont's collaborator and young wife, Jessie. The path from Kansas to the Columbia River is mostly in the present author's words. From the Dalles to Fort Vancouver and return is in Fremont's words. Although not first to follow this route, his observations are nevertheless descriptive and original. The route south from the Dalles covered unknown territory, meeting Indians who may not previously have seen white men. He passed through the Klamath Marsh. He then turned east to Winter Ridge, Summer Lake, and on the Lake Abert, all of which he named. He turned south through western Nevada to Pyramid Lake (which he also named) with a sumptuous feast on salmon trout with Indians. Volume 2 describes travels from there, past Reno and Carson City and over the Sierra at Carson Pass, south through the central California valleys, over the Tehachapi pass to the desert, through Las Vegas, and up the Virgin River into Utah and Utah Lake where we end the word for word commentary. His principal aid and confidant was Christopher Kit Carson whose enduring fame was largely the result of this particular expedition.

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