Pathfinder : John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire
Автор:Tom Chaffin Год: 2004 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 592 ISBN: 0809075563 Book Description The amazing life of the explorer who first mapped the West and forever changed nineteenth-century America The career of John Charles Fremont (1813-90) celebrates and ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's important new biography demonstrates Fremont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West. As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Fremont stood at the center of the vast federal project of Western exploration and conquest. 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. But Fremont was more than an explorer....
