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Illustration of Pyramid Lake, northwestern Nevada, U.S., from the report on John C. Frémont's 1843–44 Western expedition.

John C. Frémont

American presidential election, 1856

View of Pikes Peak from forty miles distant; from Fremonts report of his expedition.The government responded to interest in the Far West by sending John C. Fremont, a young Army engineer, on a series of expeditions to survey and map the trails to Oregon and California. Fremont spent 1842 in the Wind River Mountains and in 1843–44 led an expedition that marched from St. Louis to Oregon, then south into Nevada and across the Sierra into California, returning East by way of Nevada and Utah.

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Illustration of Pyramid Lake, northwestern Nevada, U.S., from the report on John C. Frémont's 1843–44 Western expedition.

Illustration of Pyramid Lake, northwestern Nevada, U.S., from the report on John...

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John C. Frémont

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John C. Frémont, engraving from a daguerreotype by Mathew Brady, c. 1850.

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American presidential election, 1856

American presidential election, 1856

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View of Pikes Peak from forty miles distant; from Fremonts report of his expedition.The government responded to interest in the Far West by sending John C. Fremont, a young Army engineer, on a series of expeditions to survey and map the trails to Oregon and California. Fremont spent 1842 in the Wind River Mountains and in 1843–44 led an expedition that marched from St. Louis to Oregon, then south into Nevada and across the Sierra into California, returning East by way of Nevada and Utah.

View of Pikes Peak from forty miles distant;...

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