John Fremont Letters for the years 1846 thru 1856

John Fremont

John Fremont wrote 13 Letters from a total of 12 locations including Hawks Peak, CA, Sacramento River, CA, and Lassens Rancho, CA. John Fremont wrote a total of 8 people including Thomas Benton, and Jessie Benton. Most of John Fremont's letters were written in the year 1846. Several other letters were written in 1849 and 1848. Who did John Fremont know? View John Fremont's social graph.

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  • John Fremont letter to Thomas Larkin.

    Hawks Peak, CA - 10 March 1846

    I am making myself as strong as possible, in the intention that if we are unjustly attacked, we will fight to extremity, and refuse quarter trusting to our country to avenge our death.

  • John Fremont letter to Thomas Benton.

    Sacramento River, CA - 24 April 1846

    I had the good fortune to save the lives of Mr. Gillespie and party from the Indians. In a charge at night by the Tlamath Indians...

  • John Fremont letter to Archibald Gillespie.

    Lassens Rancho, CA - 25 April 1846

    There is required for the support of the exploring party under my command, at present almost entirely destitute, the following amount of supplies...

  • John Fremont letter to John Montgomery.

    Sonoma, CA - 5 July 1846

    I shall to-day continue my road towards Sutter's Fort, on the Sacramento.

  • John Fremont letter to Thomas Benton.

    Mission Of Carmel, CA - 25 July 1846

    I had scarcely reached the Lower Sacramento, when General Castro, then in the north (at Sonoma...), declared his determination immediately to proceed against the foreigners settled in the country...

  • John Fremont letter to Stephen Kearny.

    Los Angeles, CA - 17 January 1847

    ...until you and Commodore Stockton adjust, between yourselves, the question of rank, where I respectfully think the difficulty belongs, I shall have to report and receive orders, as heretofore, from the Commodore.

  • John Fremont letter to Roger Jones.

    Washington, DC - 19 February 1848

    I take the occasion to say that my reason for resigning is that I do not feel conscious of having done anything to merit the finding of the court

  • John Fremont letter to Thomas Benton.

    Bents Fort, CO - 17 November 1848

    Both Indians and whites here report the snow to be deeper in the mountains than has for a long time been known so early in the season, and they predict a severe winter.

  • John Fremont letter to Jessie Benton.

    Taos, NM - 27 January 1849

    The guide came nigh being frozen to death here, and dead mules were already lying about the fires. Meantime, it snowed steadily.

  • John Fremont letter to Jessie Benton.

    Taos, NM - 6 February 1849

    I wish for a time to shut out these things from my mind, to leave this country, and all thoughts and all things connected with recent events, which have been so signally disastrous as absolutely to astonish me...

  • John Fremont letter to Thomas Benton.

    Socorro, NM - 24 February 1849

    We lost all our animals and ten men, the mules frozen, and the men starved to death, Proue only excepted. He was frozen.

  • John Fremont letter to Thomas Benton.

    Parawan, UT - 9 February 1854

    In making my expedition to this point, I save nearly a parallel of latitude, shortening the usual distance from Green River to this point by over a hundred miles.

  • John Fremont letter to Charles Robinson.

    New York, NY - 17 March 1856

    I had been waiting to see what shape the Kansas question would take in congress, that I might be enabled to give you some views in relation to the probable result.