A year of American travel / by Jessie Benton Frémont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902, author.

Contributor:

Harper & Brothers, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902--Travel.

Frémont, Jessie Benton.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

Panama--Description and travel.

Panama.

Voyages to the Pacific coast.

Ethnic groups--California.

Ethnic groups.

Women--California.

Women.

Urbanization--California.

Urbanization.

Real estate development--California.

Real estate development.

Law--Political aspects--California.

Law.

Agriculture--California.

Agriculture.

Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902.

Law--Political aspects.

Travel.

California.

Genre:

Travel literature -- 19th century.

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Young Ladies' and Young Men's Association of the Salisbury Reformed Church. Library (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

190, [2] pages ; 13 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Brothers, publishers Franklin Square, 1878.

Summary:

Jessie Benton Frémont (1824-1902), the daughter of a Missouri Senator and wife of explorer John Charles Frémont, first came to California in 1849, when she and her young daughter spent six months at her husband's newly-acquired ranch at Mariposas, 140 miles east of San Francisco. The Frémonts also spent the years 1851-1852 and 1857-1861 at the Mariposas ranch before moving to St. Louis during the Civil War. They returned to California in 1887 and made Los Angeles their home for the rest of their lives. A year of American travel (1878) was written by Mrs. Frémont to earn badly-needed money for her family after her husband went bankrupt in 1873. Here she describes her first trip to California in 1849: the voyage and crossing at Chagres, life on the Mariposas ranch, visits to San José and Monterey, the life of women in California, the plight of the Mission Indians, the slavery controversy in the territory, and the Monterey Constitutional Convention of 1849. The book closes with the Frémonts' return to the East when Frémont assumed his seat in the U.S. Senate.

Notes:

"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by Harper & Brothers, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington."--Title page verso.

"Harper's Half-Hour series": Pages [1]-4.

Publisher's advertisements on pages [1]-[2] at end.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy has affixed to front pastedown bookplate of Library of Young Ladies' and Young Men's Association of the Salisbury Reformed Church with manuscript provenance note ("Purchased"), value ("$38), and shelf-mark ("71") in red ink.

Cited in:

Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition), F363

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 43

OCLC:

1299237864