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A disastrous journey for John Fremont & his party...
A disastrous journey for John Fremont & his party...
Item # 686961
March 28, 1849
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., March 28, 1849
* John C. Fremont
* Fatal 4th expedition
* Colorado Winter
The back page has: "Col. Fremont--A Distressing Report" which reports on his fateful fourth expedition in the West during which his party was caught in a snowstorm in Colorado causing loss of ten of his men & 130 of his pack mules.
A few bits include: "...the winter as having been so very severe that Colonel Fremont...lost 130 mules in one night...impossible to proceed further...Col. Fremont started himself for Taos...where he arrived in nine days...sufferings of the party are represented to have been so very great that they were even reduced to the necessity of feeding upon the bodies of their comrades...all of Col. Fremont's party perished except himself, and he is badly frostbitten...".
Four pages, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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