BORN TO ADVENTURE

by Hildegarde Hawthorne ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 5, 1947

A wordy account of John Charles Fremont's contributions to westward expansion. A rigorous blue pencil would have helped point up some of the interesting and exciting source material. Fremont worked on surveying the northern and southern routes through mountains and deserts; he took part in the struggle for California. There is some material on the free versus slave state controversy, but any high school reader coming to this biography would require a fair background in American history before he could use the supplementary material to be found in this verbose account.

Pub Date: Sept. 5, 1947

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Appleton-Century

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1947

Categories: NONFICTION