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Title: Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Subjects: Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Discoveries in geography Explorers
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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hat, for he got into the Yosemite Valley, ever afterclaiming to have discovered it. He met with enormous dif-ficulties, though the month was October, and they enduredmuch suffering. They were long finding a way down onthe west, the horses at one place requiring to be lowered byropes across a long slope of loose rocks. Seventeen horseswere eaten and seven were lost on the way across. Smith crossed, according to some authorities, by or nearSonora Pass, but others who have made a careful study ofhis routes place it from the head of the American to theTruckee, and down the latter stream to the Great Basin.The Chiles-Walker party, second division, in 1843, went downalong the east front from the Humboldt to Owens River andlake and so around by Walker Pass. Fremont met Chiles(he spells it Chiles and also Childs) near Sutters and learned * Century Magazine, vol. xix., N. S., p. io6. The journals of Smith are lost and his routes are laid down from a fewletters, and from statements of trappers.
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Yosemite Valley, California The Three BrothersPhotograph by United States Geological Survey Undue Haste 209 from him that this southern or second division of his party-lost all the waggons, sawmill machinery, saws, etc. Thesecrossings of the Sierra, of course, were all by pack-train; itwas deemed impossible at that time to take a waggon over.The first waggons brought into California (beyond theSierras) came across the plains in 1844 with the Townsend-Stevens party. They were left in the moimtains and layburied in the snow till the following spring, when they weretaken down to the Sacramento Valley. ^ This was by the routenear Donner Lake and along Truckee River. The Bartleson-Bidwell party abandoned their waggons a few days after leav-ing the Great Salt Lake, made pack-saddles, and used themeven on the oxen, which they desired to drive along for food.As yet nobody had crossed the Sierra in midwinter asFremont intends to do. It is a mystery to me why he didnot sojourn at the forks of W

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