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Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, pages 715-723)

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Illustrations: v.1: Frémont in 1861 -- Joel R. Poinsett : Frémont's patron -- Steamboat trapper on the Missouri River -- Buffalo escaping from a prairie fire -- Thomas Hart Benton, about 1840 -- Frémont's explorations, 1838-1853 -- Fort Snelling in Minnesota -- Astoria in Oregon, 1841 -- Frémont the explorer -- Two portraits of Kit Carson -- St. [Saint] Charles, Missouri -- Frémont's men among the buffalo -- Two pictures of Mrs. Frémont -- Frémont's expedition breaking camp at dawn -- Frémont's second expedition on Klamath Lake -- Job's Peak of the Sierra Nevada in California -- Three portraits of Sutter -- Two views of Sutter's Fort -- Frémont's men following the Uncompahgre River -- Fort Laramie -- Frémont's forest camp below Mt. [Mount] Shasta -- Bear flag and Bear guidon -- Frémont raising the Bear flag -- Monterey Harbor in 1846 -- Monterery in 1846

Illustrations: v.2: Jessie Benton Frémont -- Two California commanders [Robert F. Stockton; Stephen W. Kearny] -- Three presidents known to Frémont [James K. Polk; John Tyler; Zachary Taylor] -- Disaster in the San Juan Mountains -- Two California towns of Gold-rush days -- Two early views of San Francisco -- Vallejo in 1851 -- Fourth great San Francisco Fire, 1851 -- Frémont in 1856 -- Frémont riding the "Abolition Nag" to Salt River in 1856 -- James Buchanan : Democratic nominee in 1856 -- Millard Fillmore, Native American nominee, 1856 -- Two political cartoons of 1856 -- Two cartoons of 1856 -- Two jeering campaign posters of 1856 -- Frémont cottage at Mariposa and Jessie Frémont -- San Francisco: a scene of vigilante days -- St. [Saint] Louis in 1860 -- Theatre of war: Department of the West -- Recruiting on Broadway, 1861 -- Battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Missouri -- Frémont in the "Hundred Days" -- Four figures of the "Hundred Days": [Major-General Sterling Price; Major-General David Hunter; Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk; Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas] -- Civil War steamboats -- Three pictures of Frank P. Blair -- Four of Frémont's subordinates in Missouri: [Brigadier-General James A. Mulligan; Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon; Major-General Franz Sigel; Major-General Jefferson C. Davis] -- Battle of Lexington, Missouri, September, 1861 -- Frémont's troops at Camp Zagonyi, Wheatland, Missouri -- Four wartime associates for Frémont: [General Nathaniel P. Banks; Major-General Carl Schurz; Major-General Lew Wallace; Major-General John M. Schofield] -- Abraham Lincoln -- Theatre of war: Mountain Department -- "Stonewall" Jackson -- Five members of the administration: [Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury; Edward Bates, Attorney General; Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President] -- Two critics of Frémont: [Major-General John Pope, 1862; Montgomery Blair as a cabinet member -- Mrs. Frémont after the Civil War -- Frémont in 1890 -- Jessie Benton Frémont's home in Los Angeles -- Jessie B. Frémont in old age -- Frémont's grave at Piermont, New York

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