From the Book - Regular Print
Chapter I. Charleston Boyhood 1 --
Chapter II. An Explorer's Training 19 --
Chapter III. First View of the Great West 29 --
Chapter IV. Washington Courtship 46 --
Chapter V. A Runaway Marriage 60 --
Chapter VI. Stakes of the West 72 --
Chapter VII. First Expedition 89 --
Chapter VIII. South Pass and Fremont's Peak 104 --
Chapter IX. First Report 116 --
Chapter X. Second Expedition: Outward Bound 127 --
Chapter XI. Over the Winter Sierras 147 --
Chapter XII. Sutter's Fort and California 161 --
Chapter XIII. Homeward Over the Rockies 175 --
Chapter XIV. Washington Expansionists and the Far West 190 --
Chapter XV. Third Expedition 206 --
Chapter XVI. A Clash With Californians 217 --
Chapter XVII. Message From Gillespie 234 --
Chapter XVIII. Bear Flag Outbreak 253 --
Chapter XIX. California Battalion 287 --
Chapter XX. Quarrel With Kearny 305 --
Chapter XXI. A Famous Court-Martial 327 --
Chapter XXII. Starvation and Cannibalism 343 --
Chapter XXIII. Golconda and the Senate 373 --
Chapter XXIV. Managing the Mariposas 393 --
Chapter XXV. Fifth Expedition 408 --
Chapter XXVI. Republican Nomination 421 --
Chapter XXVII. Campaign of 1856 439 --
Chapter XXVIII. New Mariposa Troubles 459 --
Chapter XXIX. Civil War in the West 473 --
Chapter XXX. Fremont vs. Blair and Lincoln 503 --
Chapter XXXI. End of the "Hundred Days" 529 --
Chapter XXXII. Mountain Department 550 --
Chapter XXXIII. Defeat of the Blairs 564 --
Chapter XXXIV. A Financial Debacle 583 --
Chapter XXXV. Poverty and Labor 602 --
Chapter XXXVI. Character and Fame 612 --
Chapter XXXVII. Some New Light on Fremont 623 --
I. Fremont's Children 663 --
II. Corruption in St. Louis, 1861 663 --
III. E. M. Kern's Letter 667.