Author: steveinskeep

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America’s first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions … first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the age – known as a wilderness explorer, bestselling writer, gallant…

At the center of the devastating forced removal of Native Americans from their land lay the political battle between two key figures: President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross. This “magnificent book” (The Washington Post) unravels their story and this harrowing moment in US history.