John Charles Fremont

John Charles Fremont, a Civil War hero and eventually a candidate for president, and his wife Jessie, the daughter of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton, were destined to eventually turn the tide on the bad press the West was receiving.

Kate Kelly: "Make Next Left Turn..." 2009

John Charles Fremont, during his western explorations in search of the mythical Buenaventura River believed to flow from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, was the first European American to see Pyramid Lake, in January 1844.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

John Charles Fremont, during his western explorations in search of the mythical Buenaventura River believed to flow from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, was the first European American to see Pyramid Lake, in January 1844.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

John Charles Fremont, during his western explorations in search of the mythical Buenaventura River believed to flow from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, was the first European American to see Pyramid Lake, in January 1844.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

John Charles Fremont, during his western explorations in search of the mythical Buenaventura River believed to flow from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, was the first European American to see Pyramid Lake, in January 1844.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

To think that I, Fremont Jones, namesake and blood kin of that intrepid explorer of the Old West John Charles Fremont, had become physically timid!

Beacon Street Mourning Day, Dianne 2000

Webster, Clay and Calhoun put together in his 30 years in the Senate, the -- one of the first two senators from Missouri, the man who inched his way towards opposition to slavery, the man whose son-in-law was the first civil governor of California, John Charles Fremont.

Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990 1998

Named for the flamboyant explorer John Charles Fremont, it had honored in its four major cities those outstanding politicians of the early nineteenth century whose interest in the West had helped that vast area become an integral part of the nation.

Space Michener, James 1982

Going down the eastern slope on California, just below Powell on the south side, at the corner of Prospect Place, stood a house once occupied by Lieut. John Charles Fremont, while on the corner below stood the home of Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson.

California, 1849-1913; or, the rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years' residence in that state Lell Hawley Woolley

It put a ticket into the field with Colonel John Charles Fremont as the candidate for President, and William L. Dayton of New Jersey for Vice -

The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle