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Show 358 33. Ibid., 27 April 1852, p. 1. 34. Fremont, Report, p. 276; also see John C Fremon^, Map of Oregon and Upper C a I l f ° r n i a ( W i n s t o n , 1848) which accompanied Fremont's Geographical Memoir. This map was drawn from the surveys of Fremont by Charles Pruess. 35. Fremont, Report, p. 276. 36. Ibid. Fremont also said: "The structure of the country would require this formation of interior lakes; for the waters which would collect between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, not being able to cross this formidable barrier, nor get to the Columbia or Colorado, must naturally collect into reservoirs, each of which would have its little system of streams and rivers to supply it." (Report, p. 275.) 37« LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen, ed., Supplement to the Journals of the Forty-niners Salt Lake to Los Angeles. Far West and Rocky Mountain Series, vol. 15 (Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1961), pp. 7I-72. 38. Martineau, "Seeking a Refuge in the Desert," p. 297. Martineau was also informed by Bennett that "the survivors were loud in their denunciations of Fremont for thus issuing a lying map of a country he had never seen." (ibid., P. 298.) 39« Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom, p. 4l; Roberts, Comprehensive History, 2:521. 40. John Charles Fremont, Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California in Illustration of His Map of Oregon and California, Senate Misc. Doc. 148, 30th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington, D.C: Wendell & Van Beathuysen, 1848), p. 11, 13. 41. U.S. Congress, Senate, Letter of J. C Fremont to the Editors of the Daily National Intelligencer, S. Doc. 67, 33rd Cong., 1st sess., 1854. This letter was published in the Intelligencer of l4 June 1854. 42. Simpson, Report of Explorations, pp. 22-23. 43. Heap, Central Route to the Pacific, p. 277. |
