Passion and principle : John and Jessie Frémont, the couple whose power, politics, and love shaped...
Passion and principle : John and Jessie Frémont, the couple whose power, politics, and love shaped...
Passion and principle : John and Jessie Frémont, the couple whose power, politics, and love shaped nineteenth-century America / Sally Denton.
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New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N973.60922/1
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English
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xiii, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
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Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2007.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2007.
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"John Charles Fremont was the illegitimate child of a Virginia aristocrat and a working class French immigrant; Jessie Benton was the daughter of the most powerful pre-Civil War U.S. senator, Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. John was twenty-seven when they first met, tanned and handsome, just back from an expedition exploring the American West. Jess...
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Passion and principle : John and Jessie Frémont, the couple whose power, politics, and love shaped nineteenth-century America / Sally Denton.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [428]-440) and index.
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N973.60922/1
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74VKRKyG5bmb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRKyG5bmb
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ISBN
9781596910195 (alk. paper)
1596910194 (alk. paper)
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973.60922 B
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991023089309702626
