As Carson's gun misfired, the warrior drew to shoot a poison arrow ; however, Frémont, seeing that Carson was in danger, trampled the warrior with his horse.

Frémont was already under a cloud with charges of negligence in his command of the Department of the West compounded with allegations of fraud and corruption.

On June 1, 1845, John Frémont and 55 men left St. Louis, with Carson as guide, on the third expedition.

" Frémont nearly provoked a battle with Mexican General José Castro near Monterey, California.

To avenge the deaths, Frémont attacked a Klamath Tribe fishing village named Dokdokwas, that most likely had nothing to do with the attack, at the junction of the Williamson River and Klamath Lake, on May 10, 1846.

Carson rode to where Frémont was and inquired as to what should be done with the prisoners.

He joined forces with Frémont, and made Carson a lieutenant, thus initiating Carson's military career.

By the end of the Frémont expeditions and California rebellion, Carson decided to settle down with Joséfa.

Frémont received less than 600 popular votes in the slave states, with all of these coming from Delaware and Maryland.

Almost all delegates were instructed to support Frémont, with a major exception being the New York delegation, which was composed of War Democrats who supported Ulysses S. Grant.

John C. Frémont and his " California Battalion " used the Mission as a base of operations during their war with Mexico in 1846 ( see Bear Flag Revolt ).

Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, John C. Frémont, reported after the gunfight, " Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens Tombstone have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of out-lawry so largely disturbing the sense of security ... opinion is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element.

( Jessie Street, in the town of Mariposa, is named for Fremont's wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, who came to Mariposa to live with him.

In 1841 with training from Nicollet, Frémont mapped portions of the Des Moines River.

On June 1, 1845, John Frémont and 55 men left St. Louis, with Carson as guide, on the third expedition.

Frémont nearly provoked a battle with Gen. José Castro near Monterey, camped at the summit of what is now named Fremont Peak.

In 1846, with the arrival of USS Congress, Frémont was appointed lieutenant colonel of the California Battalion, also called U. S. Mounted Rifles, which he had helped form with his survey crew and volunteers from the Bear Flag Republic, now totaling 428 men.

This eyewitness account, together with others, were widely published during the presidential election of 1856, which featured John Frémont as the first anti-slavery Republican nominee versus Democrat James Buchanan.

It is widely speculated that this incident, together with other military blunders, sank Frémont ’ s political aspirations.

Ordered to march with Kearny's army back east, Frémont was arrested on August 22, 1847 when they arrived at Fort Leavenworth.

When the Army of Virginia was created June 26, to include Gen. Frémont's corps, with John Pope in command, Frémont declined to serve on the grounds that he was senior to Pope and for personal reasons.

The novel was later adapted into a television miniseries of the same name with Richard Chamberlain as Frémont.

Carson's public image as a hero had been sealed by the Frémont expedition reports of 1845.

In Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times, H. W. Brands wrote that Frémont added the accented " e " and the " t " to his name later in life.

Carson felt that he owed Frémont his life.

* The 1983 historical novel Dream West by western writer David Nevin covers the life, loves and times of Frémont.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

* Immortal Wife ( 1944 )-based on the life of Jessie Benton Frémont

In late August 1861, General John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting Washington, a proclamation of martial law in Missouri.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

During the U. S. Presidential Election of 1864, Douglass supported John C. Frémont.

* 1848 – John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.

Meanwhile, Army captain John C. Frémont led settlers in northern California to overthrow the Mexican garrison in Sonoma ( in the Bear Flag Revolt ).

* 1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.

That summer he met John C. Frémont on a Missouri River steamboat.

Frémont was preparing to lead his first expedition and was looking for a guide to take him to South Pass on the Continental Divide.

Along the route, Frémont and party came across a Mexican man and a boy who had survived an ambush by a band of Natives.

But upon reaching the Arkansas, Frémont suddenly made a hasty trail straight to California, without explanation.

Frémont fled Mexican-controlled California, and went north to Oregon, making camp at Klamath Lake.

On the night of May 9, 1846, Frémont received a courier, Lieutenant Archibald Gillespie, bringing messages from President James Polk.

Reviewing the messages, Frémont neglected the customary measure of posting a watchman for the camp.