John Charles Frémont was one of the great heroes of America’s age of Manifest Destiny. The expeditions he led through its largely uncharted western territories introduced the nation to the diversity and potential of its vast trans-Mississippi holdings....
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Oscar Lewis sets his first novel in mid-1850s San Francisco. An “authorized biography” of a California entrepreneur has just been published, but James Horton is scarcely recognizable to those who knew him....
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