Major-Gen. FREMONT and staff went on board the City of Alton, to accompany and direct the expedition. Capt. BART ABLE is in charge of the fleet. The captains of the several vessels were published ...

Old Bill’s second claim to fame was his association with the ill-fated Fourth Expedition of John C. Fremont. In 1848, Fremont hired Old Bill to help blaze a railroad route through the southern ...