john c. fremont

     

He wrote a "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842"

Trivia about john c. fremont

  • Cities in Nebraska, Ohio & California are named for this topographical engineer nicknamed "The Pathfinder"
  • Known as the "Pathfinder", he was urged to run against Lincoln in 1864 but eventually stepped aside
  • When the parents of this "pathfinder" ran off together, his mother was still legally married to another man
  • In 1842 he mapped most of the Oregon Trail; 8 years later he was a California senator
  • Later a pres. candidate, in 1841 this pathfinder eloped with Sen. Thomas Hart Benton's 17-year-old daughter
  • Though he didn't really blaze his own trails, this explorer & politician was nicknamed "The Pathfinder"
  • After losing the presidential election in 1856, this explorer became a major general in the Union army

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