A Year of American Travel
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Writer, wife of famed explorer John C. Fr?mont, and political activist Jessie Benton Fr?mont was one of the most remarkable women of the 19th century. Closest aide and confidant to her ambitious husband, she penned this tale of her family's western migration."I saw back into the time when I had learned to know how painful is the process of founding a new country. What loneliness, what privations, what trials of every kind, went to the first steps of even that rich and lovely country of California."It was not gold that drew Jessie Fr?mont to California in 1848. Gold had not yet been discovered when she left on her journey. The Fr?monts were there to make a new life.When bad investments bankrupted the Fr?monts, Jessie turned to writing to help support the family. Sharing her husband's anti-slavery feelings, she personally went to Abraham Lincoln to plead to restore her husband's position after he was dismissed for issuing an edict of emancipation in Missouri.She was helpful in getting protection for Yosemite Valley during the Lincoln administration.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1519053568
ISBN13:9781519053565
Release Date:November 2016
Publisher:Independently published
Length:93 Pages
Weight:0.33 lbs.
Dimensions:9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"
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