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Jessie Benton Frémont: Missouri's Trailblazer
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Jessie Benton Frémont: Missouri's Trailblazer. By Hen 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 Frémont 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 Frémont, army explorer and presidential candidate, Jessie's life was embroiled in the politics of the Civil War e...
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Jessie Ann Benton Frémont (1824-1902)
Legacy
; Much as she was regarded during her own lifetime, nineteenth-century American author Jessie Benton Frmont is still viewed primarily as the wife of adventurer and politician John Charles Frmont. John Frmont's entry in Merriam-Webster's New Biographical Dictionary (1995) notes that he was "saved from
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Jessie Benton Frémont: Missouri's Trailblazer
The Journal of Southern History
; Jessie Benton Frmont: Missouri's Trailblazer. By Hen 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 Frmont is a very readable and interesting depiction. As the daughter
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Jessie Benton Fremont: Missouri's Trailblazer.(Brief article)(Book review)
Journal of Southern History
; 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
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Jessie Ann Benton Fremont (1824-1902). (Legacy Profile).
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
; Much as she was regarded during her own lifetime, nineteenth-century American author Jessie Benton Fremont is still viewed primarily as the wife of adventurer and politician John Charles Fremont. John Fremont's entry in Merriam-Webster's New Biographical Dictionary (1995) notes that he was saved
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Annie Kennedy Bidwell: An Intimate History.(Book review)
California History
; ANNIE KENNEDY BIDWELL: An Intimate History By Lois H. McDonald (Chico: Stansbury Publishing, 2004, 430 pp., $4495, cloth) A telling 1868 photograph of Annie Bidwell in the outfit she would wear on her wedding voyage to California shows a petite woman engulfed in layers of fabric--an elaborate
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Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives.(Book Review)
Journal of Southern History
; Edited by Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 292. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-511509-0.) Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon, the editors of this excellent book, set as their goal to understand more deeply 'exactly what' the impact of
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Essential Mary Austin: A selection of Mary Austin's Best Writings.(Book review)
California History
; ESSENTIAL MARY AUSTIN: A SELECTION OF MARY AUSTIN'S BEST WRITINGS Edited with an introduction by Kevin Hearle (Santa Clara, CA: Santa Clara University and Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2006, 208 pp., $11.95 trade paper) BRILLIANT, UNCONVENTIONAL, outspoken, Mary Austin (1868-1934) was an early feminist
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Intimate Strategies of the Civil war: Military Commanders and Their Wives
The Journal of Southern History
; Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives. Edited by Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 292. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-511509-0.) Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon, the editors of this excellent
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A Hungarian in the Union army
Military Images
; In December 1861 Jessie Benton Fremont set down an account of a cavalry unit in the early days of the war under the discredited command of her husband, Charles Fremont. As much as anything she did this to tell her husband's side of the story, and shed the best light possible on his management of
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ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe
; Q. I've been reading Irving Stone's novel "Immortal Wife" about Jessie Benton Fremont, the daughter of the late US senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. I know there was a muralist named Thomas Hart Benton. Are they one and the same, or, if not, are they related? E.B., Peabody A. Thomas Hart
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