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CHAPTER I THE PURPOSES AND ORGANIZATION OF THE MISSION

CHAPTER II THE EQUIPMENT AND START OF THE EXPEDITION

CHAPTER III AMONG THE SIOUX

CHAPTER IV ON THE UPPER MISSOURI TO THE JUNCTION OF THE YELLOWSTONE

CHAPTER V AMONG WOLVES, GRIZZLIES, AND BUFFALO, TO THE FALLS OF THE MISSOURI

CHAPTER VI AT THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, TO THE FOOT OF THE “GREAT DIVIDE”

CHAPTER VII AMONG THE SHOSHONES, OR SNAKE INDIANS

CHAPTER VIII ACROSS THE ROCKIES TO THE TRIBUTARIES OF THE COLUMBIA

CHAPTER IX AFLOAT ON THE COLUMBIA TO TIDEWATER AND THE OCEAN

CHAPTER X IN CAMP BY THE PACIFIC

CHAPTER XI THE EXPEDITION SETS OUT HOMEWARD

CHAPTER XII HOMEWARD ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE AND DOWN THE YELLOWSTONE

CHAPTER XIII THE LAST OF A LONG JOURNEY

LIFE, EXPLORATIONS, AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF JOHN CHARLES FREMONT

PREFACE

CHAPTER I Parentage.—Education.—Early History.

CHAPTER II First Expedition.—Prairies.—Fort Laramie.—South Pass.—The Rocky Mountains.—The Platte or Nebraska River.

CHAPTER III Second Expedition.—Kansas.—Salt Lake.—Columbia River.—Central Basin.—Sierra Nevada.—California.—Kit Carson.—Wahsatch Mountains.—Three Parks.

CHAPTER IV Third Expedition.—Arkansas.—Great Basin.—Hawks Peak on the Sierra.—Tlamath Lake.

CHAPTER V North California.—Conquest of California.—Wah-lah-wah-lah Indians.—Insurrection.—Insurgents Surrender to Fremont.—Capitulation of Cowenga.

CHAPTER VI. Fourth Expedition.—A Senator of the United States.

CHAPTER VII Engages in the Cattle Business in California.—Gold Discovery.—Visit. to England and France.—Imprisonment in London.—Fifth Expedition.—Pacific. Railroad.—Mariposa Title Finally Confirmed by the Supreme Court of the. United States.

CHAPTER VIII General Remarks.

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