John Fremont Quotes
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John Fremont, 1813-1890, Explorer, General, and Republican Candidate for President, Name given to the strait of water between San Francisco and Marin County, 1846
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Maury helped organize the Thomas Walker expeditions. These were precursors to the Jefferson organized Lewis and Clark expedition later.
The Donner Party became stranded in heavy snow while crossing the mountains. Forty-two emigrants, including Donner, and two Indian guides died, however, the remaining forty-seven travelers survived.
This passage describes the process of readying wagon trains and provides insight to the motivations of the settlers. El Dorado was the city or gold of Spanish legend and California and Oregon were the hope of so many.
Jefferson had offered the command of the large expedition to General Clark, but instead was persuaded by him to send a smaller force headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (no relation to the General.)
He was the first what man to cross the continent. His exploration was (and is) the legal basis for the Canadian claim on the Northwest Territory
Jefferson had insisted that the expedition was purely scientific. The fact that it was lead by two military officers and involved soldiers led many to suspect the expedition was an “invasion” of what was then officially Spanish Territory. The very small size of the expedition made the concept of an expansion effort seemingly ridiculous to many. Jefferson was never public about his hopes fort the eventual possibilities but Martinez seemed to have gotten it right but was paid little heed.
before there were railroads in the West
This was the beginning of the Jeffersonian effort culminating in the Corps of Discovery and the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Presidential, confidential memoranda to the Congress were more common then than now when they have become a rarity.
At the time, the United States wanted as many Mexicans as citizens as they could get—so much so that if Mexicans in the new American territories did not elect American Citizenship within 1 year, they became American Citizens automatically.
i.e., the Lewis and Clark expedition Jefferson had taken it upon himself to authorize the expedition and did not inform Congress until it was ongoing. When the expedition became known to Congress, there was much debate whether the expedition came under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
His expedition to Kentucky was illegal as it was against British law to expand to the West. Soon, hundreds of thousands of Americans would follow Boone and his men.
John Charles Frémont or Fremont was an explorer of the Western United States, military officer, and politician. He was a U.S. Senator from California, and in 1856 was the first Republican nominee for President of the United States. A native of Georgia, he was an opponent of slavery but also a contributor to Native American genocide.
