1859 – Letter on behalf of John C. Fremont forwarding an article from the San Francisco Bulletin defending his ownership of the Mariposa Ranch that was sent to the influential Washington DC journalist-politician, Francis P. Blair, from San Francisco by the poet-politician Colonel Charles James
San Francisco: 1859. Unbound. Both Blair and James had been free-soil Democrats who were instrumental in both forming the new Republican Party in 1856 and securing John C. Fremont to run for President on its ticket. Although, Fremont was not one of the major candidates to represent the Republicans in..... More