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The John C. Fremont Trail (the path of Fremont's march into Santa Barbara, California in December 1846) [206] Fremont Campground in the Los Padres National Forest [ 207 ] Fremont Bridge (Portland, Oregon) [ 208 ]
The first "decent" map [26] of California and Oregon were drawn by Captain John C. Frémont of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers, and his topographers and cartographers in about 1848. Fremont and his men, led by his guide and former trapper Kit Carson , made extensive expeditions starting in 1844 over parts of California and ...
Edward Kern, cartographer for John C. Fremont's 1845 expedition: General Law 913,820: 8,142 sq mi (21,088 km 2) ... Map of California Counties: c. 1907–Present
Pruess Lake, Snake Valley, Utah George Karl Ludwig Preuss (1803–1854), anglicized as Charles Preuss, was a surveyor and cartographer who accompanied John C. Fremont on three of his five exploratory expeditions of the American west, including the expedition where he and Fremont were the first to record seeing Lake Tahoe from a mountaintop vantage point as they traversed what is now Carson ...
Fremont conducted expeditions over the Oregon trail to the Columbia River and to California during 1842–1846. During his third expedition, Fremont detached Lieutenants James W. Abert and William G. Peck [8] [9] in August 1845, at Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River to survey Purgatory Creek and the Canadian and False Washita Rivers. [10]
John C. Frémont (1813–1890) was an American explorer of the West during the 1840s and 1850s, popularly known as the Pathfinder, while serving in the U.S. military and as a private citizen. His first two published federal expeditions launched a mass emigration into the American West producing maps and reliable reports for settlers to read and ...
An anti-slavery map printed during the presidential election campaign of 1856 by the John C. Fremont campaign. The anti-slavery "Americans" from the North formed their own party after the nomination of Fillmore in Philadelphia. This party called for its national convention to be held in New York City, just before the Republican National ...
In 1846 the town's namesake John C. Frémont led a military expedition to map a trail through Mission Pass for reaching the Pacific coast and to take possession of California from Mexico for the United States. Dominican Convent of the Holy Rosary, founded in 1906. The Fremont area grew rapidly at the time of the California Gold Rush. A town ...