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A Newer World : Kit Carson John C Fremont And The Claiming Of The American West

Description

Between 1842 and 1854 John C. Frémont, renowned as the nineteenth century's greatest explorer, and Kit Carson, the legendary scout and Indian fighter, boldly ventured into untamed territory to fulfill America's "manifest destiny." Drawing on little-known primary sources, as well as his own travels through the lands Frémont and Carson explored, David Roberts re-creates their expeditions, second in significance only to those of Lewis and Clark. A Newer World is a harrowing narrative of hardship and adventure and a poignant reminder of the cultural tragedy that westward expansion inflicted on the Native American.

Unlike, in many ways, but forever joined, the figures of Kit Carson, frontier scout and soldier, and John Frémont, politician and bureaucrat, loom large in the history of the American West. Carson is remembered today as something of a dime-novel hero or as a villain responsible for the deaths of innocent women and children during the Long Walk of the Navajo. For his part, Frémont, famed in the mid-19th century, is all but forgotten.

Frémont was a complicated, flamboyant, and scandal-ridden figure whose quest for fame proved to be his undoing. David Roberts, the author of several popular histories of the West, describes Frémont's undeniable contributions to the growth of the American nation in A Newer World, a narrative account of the explorer's career in the West from the early 1840s to the advent of the Civil War. "Frémont's expeditions," Roberts writes, "were significant not so much for crossing land never before seen by Americans as for thrusting the Great West into the awareness of a nation hungry to expand. He was the classic example of the right man in the right place at the right time." So, too, was Kit Carson, the taciturn frontiersman who guided Frémont and saved his life on more than one occasion. Roberts's sympathetic but not uncritical tale of their crossed destinies puts human faces on two men lost to legend. --Gregory McNamee

Reviews

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-01-06
Summary: "Judgemental"

If you want to read an exciting informative book about these two guys, read Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides. I read this book to get that extra bit of detail and what I got was an author who was always second-guessing everyone's motives. He has really nothing good to say about Jessie Fremont. Didn't like ole' JCF too much either.Sometimes people themselves don't know their motivations. They just do things.

He was very upset that Fremont and the US ruined the paradise that once was CA. I don't know if he missed the memo, but the year after 1848 was 1849. The gold miners were almost there. Also CA may have been a paradise to the big land owners, not so much for the poor Mexicans and Indians.

It was like he looked back over history where the end is known from the beginning and said, they should have turned left here, should have said this in this manner, ad infinitum.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-09-22
Summary: "A Newer World, by David Roberts"

By all means read this book if your interest is in John Fremont and Kit Carson. I gave 4 stars due to the same reasons already mentioned. I think though that either Roberts lacked confidence in his writing ability and so 'beefed up' his verbage or he was following the advice of an editor. Actually the wording would have been OK if consistently used beginning to end, instead the reading evidences sporadic uncommon wordage. Nevertheless, Roberts has written a book that really is worth the read!

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2007-10-13
Summary: "Historical Gossip"

This type of publication is not real history but instead excerpted from already published scholarly work. It is an unfortunate example of Fremont-bashing giving only one side of the issues involved and even impugns Fremont's wife who it seems was doing her best to support her husband. The material concerning Kit Carson could be written in an afternoon on a word processor by any knowledgeable western historian. The Preuss diaries were published in 1958. Of course the absence of citations in a book like this is especially annoying when the author makes such accusations as Fremont having two mistresses. Where is the supporting evidence for this scurrilous accusation? Was it in the works of Spence and Jackson? As previouly noted in reviews the author uses many obscure words when more simple examples would suffice.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2006-03-11
Summary: "A Newer World"

I used the book as reference for a presentation I was to make on Fremont. I found it very helpful

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2002-01-31
Summary: "Hands-On History"

You know, it used to be that historians would content themselves with wandering into the university or national library to idly pore over musty and ancient tomes and monographs, and that this would constitute the bulk of their research. These days, though, historians are a hardier breed, and they like to race excitedly across the countryside, getting a firsthand glimpse at historical sites and badgering old codgers for oral accounts.

David Roberts is of this latter breed, and it shows in his work. Evidently, he is a mountaineer of some accomplishment: he co-wrote one book with Conrad Anker, who was on the expedition that found Mallory's body on Everest, and yet another with Jon Krakauer of "Into Thin Air" fame. So he was not one to merely read about the exploits of Fremont and Carson; he decided to personally travel in their footsteps, across plain and desert and mountain. Consequently, his book is informed by his own knowledge of travel conditions in the West and his assessment of the various camp sites and surrounding terrain. He has visited most of the key locations and knowledgeably discusses their current conditions.

As for archival material and existing biographies of the duo, Roberts is not at all shy about repeatedly proclaiming his opinions of their merits. Many previous works on Fremont and Carson are dismissed as being factually flawed, overly Freudian, or hopelessly biased. Unlike some previous authors in this field, Roberts was able to draw upon the long-lost secret diaries of Charles Preuss, who accompanied Fremont on his first, second, and fourth expeditions. The Preuss material is an invaluable corrective to the self-serving official histories penned jointly by Fremont and his wife Jessie, and the documents cast Fremont in a far worse light.

Roberts is also sensitive to the Native American side of the story, and goes to considerable lengths to discuss the involvement of Fremont and particularly of Carson in Indian affairs. This might not sit well with readers who uncritically buy into the "Manifest Destiny" school of thought.

On the whole, Carson comes off rather well in this account, as Roberts strives to shift popular opinion away from the revisionist view of the scout as a savage and barbaric Indian killer. Fremont, however, gets relentlessly mauled, and based on the surviving independent accounts of his fourth expedition, rightfully so. His historical accomplishments may have been significant (not so much for original discoveries as for the popularization of westward expansion), but he seems to have been very much lacking as a man.

This is a boldly written and robust survey of the accomplishments of Carson and Fremont, and it definitely has a lot to recommend it. Readers of exploration literature or of the American West will want to pick it up.