Pathfinder: John Charles Fr mont and the Course of American Empire, Paperback/Tom Chaffin - University of Oklahoma Press

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"The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Fr mont that has appeared to date"-- Howard R.
This new paperback edition of Pathfinder features a new, additional, updated introduction by the author..
Chaffin\'s dramatic narrative includes Fr mont\'s varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Fr mont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat.
But Fr mont was more than an explorer.
His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public\'s imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation\'s destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder.
As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Fr mont stood at the center of the vast federal project of western exploration and conquest.
Tom Chaffin\'s biography demonstrates Fr mont\'s vital importance to the history of American empire, and illuminates his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West.
Lamar, Yale University The career of John Charles Fr mont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. "The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Fr mont that has appeared to date"-- Howard R