Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fr?mont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War

by Steve Inskeep

Book Overview

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr mont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple

John C. Fr mont, one of the United States's leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735224358
• ISBN13: 9780735224353
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.5"