n August 1853, an American-born Sephardic Jew, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, accepted John Fr mont\'s invitation to join his fifth Expedition to find the best overland route to California.
Fr mont\'s party left the Missouri on September 14, 1853, traveled up the Kansas River, overland to the Arkansas, upriver past Bent\'s Fort to the Huerfano, and trav.
A Baltimore artist, inventor, and daguerreotypist, Carvalho was given the job of creating a photographic record of the lands and peoples along the way. n August 1853, an American-born Sephardic Jew, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, accepted John Fr mont\'s invitation to join his fifth Expedition to find the best overland route to California