Life, explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont (1856) (14585043308)

Identifier: lifeexplorations00upha (find matches)
Title: Life, explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875
Subjects: Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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5so 00 £ — - 5J SIERRA NEVADA. 151 snowless valley, bounded on the western side,at the distance of about a hundred miles, by alow range of mountains, which Carson recog-nized with delight as the mountains borderingthe coast. There, said he, is the little moun-tain—it is fifteen years ago since I saw it; butI am just as sure as if I had seen it yesterday.Between us, then, and this low coast range, wasthe valley of the Sacramento; and no one whohad not accompanied us through the incidentsof our life for the last few months, could realizethe delight with which at last we looked downupon it. At the distance of apparently thirtymiles beyond us were distinguished spots ofprairie; and a dark line, which could be tracedwith the glass, was imagined to be the courseof the river; but we were evidently at a greatheight above the valley, and between us and theplains extended miles of snowy fields, and brokenridges of pine-covered mountains. It was late in the day when we turnedtowards the cam