THE TIDE OF EMPIRE: America's March to the Pacific
Michael Golay
John Wiley  (2003)

THE TIDE OF EMPIRE: America's March to the Pacific is a narrative history that recounts the epic exploration expeditions of John Charles Frémont--to the South Pass in the Rockies in 1842 and to the Pacific and back in 1843-1844.  His journeys, the most important since Lewis and Clark, yielded the first systematic observations of the terrain, climate, plant and animal life, and indigenous populations of vast stretches farther west, as well as the first precise maps of the Oregon Trail. Frémont's subsequent writings about the expeditions helped to touch off the great western folk movement, persuading ordinary people that the move west was possible. He made the west accessible to a nation obsessed with the idea of motion.

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