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  • JESSIE BENTON FREMONT: A Biography. by [Fremont, Jessie Benton, 1824 -1902] Herr, Pamela.
    [Fremont, Jessie Benton, 1824 -1902] Herr, Pamela.
    JESSIE BENTON FREMONT: A Biography.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Franklin Watts, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - This biography, based on hundreds of newly discovered letters and other unpublished sources, conveys what it was like to be gifted, ambitious, and female in nineteenth-century America. As the rebellious daughter of the powerful Missouri senator, Thomas Hart Benson, she defied her family to elope with the explorer, John Charles Fremont, explorer - for the next 60 years she devoted her talents to promoting his career and reputation: joining him in California where the mines brought them a fortune, later lost and when he became the first Republican party presidential candidate, and Union general during the Civil War. As his ghostwriter, press agent, chief of staff, as well as…

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    New York: Franklin Watts, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - This biography, based on hundreds of newly discovered letters and other unpublished sources, conveys what it was like to be gifted, ambitious, and female in nineteenth-century America. As the rebellious daughter of the powerful Missouri senator, Thomas Hart Benson, she defied her family to elope with the explorer, John Charles Fremont, explorer - for the next 60 years she devoted her talents to promoting his career and reputation: joining him in California where the mines brought them a fortune, later lost and when he became the first Republican party presidential candidate, and Union general during the Civil War. As his ghostwriter, press agent, chief of staff, as well as mother to their five children of California, she made sure that his name - and that of fellow explorer Kit Carson, were not forgotten. Frontispiece portrait, notes, bibliography, index. xii, 496 pp. ISBN: 0-531150119.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 88288
    Keywords: Biography, autobiography, memoirs, California, explorer, gold mines, politics, women in west
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  • KINO REPORTS TO HEADQUARTERS: Correspondence of Eusebio F. Kino, S. J. from New Spain with Rome. Original Spanish Text of Fourteen Unpublished Letters and Reports with English Translation and Notes. by [Kino, Eusebio F., S.J. 1645 - 1711] Burrus, Ernest J., S.J.
    [Kino, Eusebio F., S.J. 1645 - 1711] Burrus, Ernest J., S.J.
    KINO REPORTS TO HEADQUARTERS: Correspondence of Eusebio F. Kino, S. J. from New Spain with Rome. Original Spanish Text of Fourteen Unpublished Letters and Reports with English Translation and Notes.

    Edition: First edition.

    Rome, Italy: INSTITUTUM HISTORICUM SOCIETATIS JESU, 1954. Hardcover first edition - In addition to being a Jesuit missionary, Kino was a geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer. During the last 24 years of his life he worked in the Pimera Alta (modern-day Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States) where he explored the region and worked with the Native American population, including primarily the Tohono O'Odham. He led an overland expedition to the Baja California Territory to prove that it was not an island but a peninsula. Index, 135 pp plus a supplement on glossy stock which includes black and white plates of the Kino's original documents plus a fold out map, complete.

    Condition: Very near fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.

    Book ID: 85569
    Keywords: arizona, baja california, explorer, jesuit missionary, missions, religion, sonora, Tohono O'Odham, Western Americana
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