THE
CROSSING
by Bob Graham
This is the same printing done for and sold by the
Eldorado National Forest Interpretive Association (ENFIA) at
their centers, including the one right where Frémont
and Carson crossed Carson Pass in 1844.
Library
of Congress 917.94/2043 21
At Open
Library
Excerpts from The Crossing
online. This will change to other days
from time to time.
THE
CROSSING describes the route of
Frémont's 2nd Expedition from Bridgeport to
Sutter's fort in the winter of 1844.
Each day of forty-one days of
THE CROSSING contains
all the text from that day of Frémont's Report to
Congress.
It also contains all the text from the same day from
the diary of Charles Preuss,
and from the autobiography of Kit Carson.
Each speaker is identified by an icon.
16 new pages, and much new formatting have been added to
the previous printing.
In the 90 pages there are 177 footnotes, 15 maps
identifying the locations, so that the route of the
expedition can be followed, and some 21 illustrations from
period publications and present day photographs.
There are detailed sections on Frémont's
navigational techniques, including determination
of elevations and determination
of positions.
 The
book is printed on 70 lb. paper and bound (Perfect Binding)
in pictorial colored wrappers with taped spine. Click to
see an enlarged image of the cover.
The location of the Long Camp, GPS coordinates,
and a map to find the place are provided, as are clues
to the location where the
"Lost Frémont
Cannon" was left on January 29, 1844.
There is also a Highway Guide for visiting many
sites on the route by automobile (paved roads); it is
referenced to the text of the Report.
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 You
can buy a copy of THE
CROSSING at the Placerville
News Co at 409 Main Street--right at the
Belltower, and across and just down the street from
The Cary House.
 And
at the Eldorado
National Forest Interpretive Association
(ENFIA) information center at Carson Pass. A new
2nd printing of the ENFIA's
A Guide to the California
Trail will also be available, and
contains (p. 55-56) an entry for, and hiking map
 to,
the Long Camp site.
And at the Placerville Ranger Station in Camino,
right off of Hwy. 50 at 8 mile road exit. They are
open year round, Mon-Fri, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. In
the summer they are open on Saturdays the same
time. And at the Supervisor's off ice on Forni Road
in Placerville, and at Pacific Ranger Station just
east of Pollock Pines, at Fresh Pond.
ENFIA now has an online
store that carries The Crossing.
 Also
available year round at Sorensen's
Hope Valley Resort at the top of the Carson
Canyon on highway 88. Or call 1-800-423-9949
 And
at the Lake
Tahoe Historical Society in South Lake
Tahoe at 3058 Lake Tahoe Blvd, (Hwy.
50) Next to the Senior Center. Until Dec. 6th
the museum will be open on Saturdays and admission
is free in the off season. Look for the mural of
Frémont and Preuss facing the street.
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  My
favorite review of The
Crossing--what it is all
about!
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Recent books that refer to
The
Crossing and to this website.
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 Pathfinder;
John C Fremont and the Course of American
Empire, Tom Chaffin, Hill &
Wang, New York, 2002
A very nice mention and the URL to this
website on the first page of the
introduction. Wow!
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 From
a series of youth books, John
Charles Frémont: Western
Pathfinder, Barbara Witteman,
Capstone Press: Bridgestone Books, Part of
Exploring the West Biographies, New York,
2002.
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Devil's
Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the
Story , Tom Rea, University
of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
The history of the Sweetwater River
valley in central Wyoming--a remote place
including Devil's Gate, Independence Rock,
and other sites along a stretch of the
Oregon Trail.
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 The
Eldorado National Forest Interpretive
Association's new guide, Hiking
in the Greater Carson Pass Region,
contains a map and hiking directions to
Frémont's Long
Camp, the historic site first
discovered and presented on this
website.
 Following
John C. Frémont's Trail Through
Northern Colorado 1843, C.
Schell Press, LLC, Fort Collins, 2010.
Bound with a CD of large format
photographs of the traveled route, or all
(text + photos) published on a CD.
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