Report of The Exploring Expedition to The Rocky Mountains in The Year 1842, and To Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44. Printed By Order of The House of Representatives.

Report of The Exploring Expedition to The Rocky Mountains in The Year 1842, and To Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44. Printed By Order of The House of Representatives.

Author: Fremont, Brevet Capt. J.C. (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890)

8vo.(5.75" x 9")1845. Fremont, Brevet Capt. J.C. Washington. Blair and Rives. House of representative Edition, First Edition. Quarter brown leather with corners over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, gilt title to gilt bordered rust leather to second compartment. All edges lightly speckled red, marbled endpapers. Booksellers penciled notes neatly to obverse of first free endpaper. Embossed library stamp to the foot of the title page with signature and date in ink to head, neither affecting text. This House of Representatives edition contains pics of Hot Springs Gate, Devil's Gate, Wind River Mountains, Pike's Peak, American Falls, and Outlet of Subterranean River which are NOT in Fremont's Memoirs, and all but one are NOT in the London edition (Devil's Gate is in both). The House of Representatives Edition contains all the small strip maps and page maps but does NOT contain the large main folding map. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, head of spine chipped with smapll loss. Covers and spine scuffed and rubbed (see pic). Illustrated with 22 plates and 4 maps. This House of Representatives edition contains pics of Hot Springs Gate, Devil's Gate, Wind River Mountains, Pike's Peak, American Falls, and Outlet of Subterranean River which are NOT in Fremont's Memoirs, and all but one are NOT in the London edition (Devil's Gate is in both). The House of Representatives Edition contains all the small strip maps and page maps but does NOT contain the large main folding map.

From Wiki: John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a United States senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the U.S. in 1856 and founder of the California Republican Party when he was nominated. His first important expedition was planned by Benton, Senator Lewis Linn, and other Westerners interested in acquiring the Oregon Territory. The scientific expedition started in the summer of 1842 and was to explore the Wind River of the Rocky Mountains, examine the Oregon Trail through the South Pass, and report on the rivers and the fertility of the lands, find optimal sites for forts, and describe the mountains beyond in Wyoming. By chance meeting, Frémont was able to gain the valuable assistance of mountain man and guide Kit Carson. Frémont and his party of 25 men, including Carson, embarked from the Kansas River on June 15, 1842, following the Platte River to the South Pass, and starting from Green River he explored the Wind River Range. Frémont climbed a 13,745-foot mountain (4,189 m), Frémont's Peak, planted an American flag, claiming the Rocky Mountains and the West for the United States. On Frémont's return trip he and his party carelessly rafted the swollen Platte River losing much of his equipment. His five-month exploration, however, was a success, returning to Washington in October. Frémont and his wife Jessie wrote a Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1843), which was printed in newspapers across the country; the public embraced his vision of the west not as a place of danger but wide open and inviting lands to be settled. After a second expedition in August 1844, Frémont and his party finally arrived back in St. Louis, enthusiastically received by the people, ending the journey that lasted over one year. His wife Jessie and Frémont returned to Washington, where the two wrote a second report, scientific in detail, showing the Oregon Trail was not difficult to travel and that the Northwest had fertile land. Senator Buchanan ordered the printing of 10,000 copies to be used by settlers and fervor the popular movement of national expansion.

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