John Charles Frémont, a lieutenant in the Army Topographical Corps, was commissioned by the U. S. government to explore and map areas of the Pacific Northwest. In his second major land expedition, he ...

This political cartoon satirizes the 1856 Presidential race, in which Colonel John Charles Fremont ran as the first candidate of the newly-formed Republican Party. By referring to the Presidential ...

Solomon Nunes Carvalho was a Baltimore painter and fledgling photographer when John C. Fremont, contacted him in 1853 and asked Carvalho to join him on a journey across the West. Carvalho was to make ...