MEMOIR

OF

THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES

OF

JOHN CHARLES FREMONT,

INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS EXPLORATIONS, DISCOVERIES AND ADVENTURES ON FIVE
SUCCESSIVE EXPEDITIONS ACROSS THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT; VOLUMINOUS

SELECTIONS FROM HIS PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE; HIS

DEFENCE BEFORE THE COURT MARTIAL, AND FULL REPORTS

OF HIS PRINCIPAL SPEECHES IN THE SENATE

OF THE UNITED STATES.

BY JOHN BIGELOW.

WITH SPIRITED ILLUSTRATIONS, AND AN ACCURATE PORTRAIT ON STEEL.

NEW YORK:

DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU ST.

H. W. DERBY & CO., CINCINNATI.

1856.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by

DERRY & JACKSON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

TILDEN LIBRARY

1895

W. H. TINSON, Stereotyper,