John Fremont Book Report

John C. Frémont was an officer with the United States Topographical Corps, and after spending time with Carson on the steam boat, John decided to hire him as his guide for 100 dollars per month. Kit was the best candidate as a guide for this excursion to the South Pass in the Rockies because of his previous adventures through them. Frémont was appointed by the government to survey the Platte and the Nebraska River to headwaters of the Sweetwater Valley. Maps and guidebooks were published for settlers who looked to move westward. After five months of exploration, Frémont wrote highly of Carson in his reports, making Carson one of the famous mountain men and a western hero. While traveling in 1842, Carson met a fourteen year old girl named Maria Josefa Jaramillo, who's family lived in Taos, the town where he lived when he wasn't on the move. He left the Presbyterian church and converted to Catholicism to enable him to marry her. Although Kit left Josefa to finish his excursions with Frémont, and stated that he always felt drawn to go back home where she was, but adventure was one of his great loves too.
They also tracked on the side of the Great Salt Lake in Utah and surveyed it. Moving further northwest, they went towards Fort Vancouver and up the United States. The public of America was greatly fascinated by life in the west and Frémont's publishings, created yet another great movement to the west coast states. In his publishings, John described Kit as a serious man, who never drank, carefully saved his money, and always kept humble and to