PATHFINDER: John C. Frémont and the Course of American Empire, Tom Chaffin

On one particularly splended morning, up at the Sierra Nevada's Carson Pass, I strapped on snowshoes and, led by mountaineer Bob Graham, hiked up to Frémont's "Long Camp," which the explorer established during his epic 1844 winter crossing of that range. Graham, a retired farmer from Sacramento--using Frémont's writings, modern topographical maps, and GPS technology--had discovered the site during his own rambles through the Sierra.

PATHFINDER: John C. Frémont and the Course of American Empire
by Tom ChaffinHill & Wang--Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2002
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From the preface:
"On one particularly splendid spring morning, up at the Sierra Nevada's Carson Pass, I strapped on snowshoes and, led by mountaineer Bob Graham, hiked up to Frémont's Long Camp, which the explorer established during his epic 1844 winter crossing of that range. Graham, a retired farmer from Sacramento--using Frémont's writings, modern topographical maps, and GPS technology--had discovered the site during his own rambles through the Sierra."
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Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U. S. War Against Cuba
By Tom Chaffin
University of Virginia Press. November 1996 Now in paperback.

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By Tom Chaffin
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Pub Date: 01/2006

Fall 2008:
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