The life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and his narrative of explorations and adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California / the memoir by Samuel M. Smucker.
A campaign-year biography of John C. Frémont paired with his own western survey narratives, compiled by Samuel M. Smucker and issued by Miller, Orton & Mulligan in New York in 1856 for a general American readership. Wood engravings show men roping and scaling rock faces, mounted hunters among stampeding buffalo, and vignette-framed mountain gorges with rivers and peaks, alongside dense letterpress tables of dates, camp stations, latitude and longitude.
