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Fremont Pathfinding Explores Missouri to Pacific
The text traces Lewis and Clark’s Missouri voyage and Freemont’s 19th century surveys across the Rockies to California. It notes Freemont’s naval math background, his 1838 surveying, and his 1856 presidential election, plus his status as a US stamp subject in 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition commemorations.
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Lewis and Clark
Missouri River
Rockies
Columbia
Pacific
John Charles Fremont
United States
Fremont
Navy
Los Angeles
California
Mississippi
Omaha