The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California

The Exploring Expedition to the
Rocky Mountains, Oregon and
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Title: The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and
California To Which Is Added a Description of the Physical Geography
of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest

and Most Authentic Sources
Author: Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont
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FIFTEENTH THOUSAND.
THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS,
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA,
BY BREVET COL. J.C. FREMONT.
TO WHICH IS ADDED A DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSICAL
GEOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA.
WITH RECENT NOTICES OF THE GOLD REGION FROM THE
LATEST AND MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES.
1852
* * * * *
PREFACE.
No work has appeared from the American press within the past few
years better calculated to interest the community at large than Colonel
J.C. Fremont's Narrative of his Exploring Expedition to the Rocky
Mountains, Oregon, and North California, undertaken by the orders of
the United States government.
Eminently qualified for the task assigned him, Colonel Fremont entered
upon his duties with alacrity, and has embodied in the following pages

the results of his observations. The country thus explored is daily
making deeper and more abiding impressions upon the minds of the
people, and information is eagerly sought in regard to its natural
resources, its climate, inhabitants, productions, and adaptation for
supplying the wants and providing the comforts for a dense population.
The day is not far distant when that territory, hitherto so little known,
will be intersected by railroads, its waters navigated, and its fertile
portions peopled by an active and intelligent population.
To all persons interested in the successful extension of our free
institutions over this now wilderness portion of our land, this work of
Fremont commends itself as a faithful and accurate statement of the
present state of affairs in that country.
Since the preparation of this report, Colonel Fremont has been engaged
in still farther explorations by order of the government, the results of
which will probably be presented to the country as soon as he shall be
relieved from his present arduous and responsible station. He is now
engaged in active military service in New Mexico, and has won
imperishable renown by his rapid and successful subjugation of that
country.
The map accompanying this edition is not the one prepared by the order
of government, but it is one that can be relied upon for its accuracy.
July, 1847.

* * * * *
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NEW EDITION.
The dreams of the visionary have "come to pass!" the unseen El
Dorado of the "fathers" looms, in all its virgin freshness and beauty,
before the eyes of their children! The "set time" for the Golden age, the
advent of which has been looked for and longed for during many
centuries of iron wrongs and hardships, has fully come. In the sunny
clime of the south west--in Upper California--may be found the modern
Canaan, a land "flowing with milk and honey," its mountains studded
and its rivers lined and choked, with gold!
He who would know more of this rich and rare land before
commencing his pilgrimage to its golden bosom, will find, in the last
part of this new edition of a most deservedly popular work, a succinct
yet comprehensive account of its inexhaustible riches and its

transcendent loveliness, and a fund of much needed information in
regard to the several routes which lead to its inviting borders.
January 1849.

* * * * *
A REPORT
ON
AN EXPLORATION OF THE COUNTRY LYING BETWEEN THE