Frémont’s Expeditions
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution, Discovery, Exploration
- Subcategories: Explorers, Frontier, Pioneers
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Indian History
- Geographical Location: United States
- Date: May, 1842-1854
Article abstract: Explorations of the West provide the main source of information for settlers from the East.
Summary of Event
John Charles Frémont, an officer in the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers and Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton’s son-in-law, led five expeditions into the West between 1842 and 1854. His first began in St. Louis in May, 1842, with Charles Preuss as cartographer and Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell as hunter. On the way up the Missouri River to Chouteau’s Landing (now Kansas City), Frémont met Kit Carson, who was to guide him...
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