John Charles Frémont moves on through mountains, prairies

With five expeditions John Charles Frémont explored large areas in the western modemakers U.S.. He paves the way millions of settlers in a new future. In California can the scientists in political power struggles - and fails.
He just learns to quickly find his teacher. He storms downright through the books. Two volumes of Livy, half the work of Virgil, to Caesar, Nepos, Sallust, Horace, modemakers to complete the "Iliad" of Homer - all he eats in a single year to himself. Top of the class in the classics, no question. "The Greek", he writes in riper years, "had a mysterious charm - behind the strange letters that belonged to an ancient world, put all wonderful things."
But the boy is anything but a geek. As quickly as new substance John Charles Frémont fascinated, he leaves him behind. Always just continue to pastures new, be it botany, physics or chemistry. New formulas, new experiments - not applying, but trying is important. Soundness is repugnant to him. He skips days of college, over a girl. John Charles Frémont's just the fruit of a French vagabond and an impulsive modemakers woman from Virginia. Three months before graduating he flies out of school - because of "constant irregularity and incorrigible negligence". modemakers No, with a perfectly straight career there will probably be nothing.
But pioneering modemakers days also offer very different opportunities. In a frantic pace, the U.S. grow into a bigger and bigger government. West of the Mississippi and Missouri huge lie fallow land, from the east pushing immigrants to flock there. But where are the best ways? Where navigable rivers? Where are the best places for forts? Where is the most fertile soil? Where there are any vegetation? The maps of the American West are in the first third of the 19th Century largely undescribed.
Certainly many Ranger and fur traders have already penetrated deep into the West. Peter Skene Ogden has traversed the Great Basin, Stephen H. Long a route from the Platte River to the Rocky Mountains found Jedediah Smith the South Pass overcome, runs over the now famous Oregon Trail onto the Pacific Ocean. But maps and coordinates, accurate data and detailed descriptions modemakers hardly have delivered all these pioneers. They were just more Trapper, not scientists. This is the gap that comes in the Frémont. Here he can realize his ideas to unveil secrets romp.
In 1838 John Charles Frémont is recording in Topographencorps the United States. It helps when surveying for the proposed railway line from his hometown modemakers of Charleston to Cincinnati. In 1839 he took part in the expedition of Joseph Nicolas Nicollet, who mapped modemakers the basin of the upper Mississippi. 1841 Frémont leads a group of topographers in the lower reaches of the Des Moines River. And then he gets by marrying Jessie Benton, a father who is a key figure modemakers in his life. Thomas Hart Benton, Senator from Missouri is in the political arena in Washington, one of the main characters, which propagate as quickly as possible westward expansion. Benton knows Frémont's talents. He gives him command of a first major expedition. "I noticed," Frémont wrote later, "that I was drawn into the vortex of important political events."
In May 1842 John Charles Frémont pulls out of St. Louis with 21 men to the west. The German-born cartographer Charles Preuss will be a research assistant for years, Kit Carson, of Scots-Irish descent, his irreplaceable leader. Frémont and Carson complement each other almost modemakers perfectly: here the brilliant, passionate, impetuous researchers, there sober, honest, loyal trapper who did not even read and write, but can move in any terrain. modemakers This first expedition is like a prelude. It takes only three and a half months, but will be a complete success. Frémont missed the valleys to the South Pass, pull through even the first settlers columns, and rises in the Wind River Range.
The second expedition, with 39 man begins in 1843 and is a whole number greater. Frémont explored the Great Salt Lake and does away with legends, who also his own people hitherto believed. The lake has no fearsome eddies, through which he stands on underground passages to the Pacific in conjunction. And the supposed Pelicans on a rock island in the lake turn out to be low, whitewashed cliffs of sea salt, as the researcher approaches them with a rubber boat. In this region modemakers there are, as Frémont noted, not only large dry areas, but also forests and berries as well as fertile soil. Four years later, Brigham Young will lead the first Mormons here.
John Charles Frémont moves on through mountains, prairies