........however, and in 1848 Fremont went
on a fourth expedition to the West.
But first Jessie gave birth to their second
child, a son.
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| The fourth expedition to the West which winded
up a disaster in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado where ten of his men
perished in the deep snows. Fremont left six more of his men in New Mexico
and continued on to California, following the Rio Grande, crossing the
Sonoran desert south of today's border with Mexico, and picking up the
Gila River trail in Arizona.
Along the way Fremont's group met up with a
group of Sonoran miners on their way to the California gold fields. He
petitioned 28 of them to go with Alex Godey, his trusted companion who
had accompanied him on three of his four expeditions, to his Mariposa property
and see what gold they could find there. |
The meeting of Charles and Jessie in San
Francisco.
Together they have the emotion of the lost
of their second child.
For a time, Frémont made his home in
California, but he was unable
to exploit successfully the rich gold-bearing
veins on his large estate
of Las Mariposas. California became a state
in 1850,
and he served briefly as one of its United
States senators.
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In 1856 he was the Republican Party's
first candidate
for president, but lost to Democrat James
Buchanan.
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