Jessie Benton Fremont: Missouri's Trailblazer.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Jessie Benton Fremont: Missouri's Trailblazer. By Ilen Stone and Suzanna M. Grenz. (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 122. $14.95, ISBN 0-8262-1628-5.) This concise biography of Jessie Benton Fremont is a very readable and interesting depiction. As the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri, and the wife of John Charles Fremont, army explorer and presidential candidate, Jessie's life was embroiled in the politics of the Civil War era. She actively ...

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