Bartleson, John (1786–1848)

In early 1840, in frontier Missouri, the Western Emigration Society formed to explore emigration to Mexican California. Glowing reports from Antoine Robidoux, a trader and trapperwhohad already traveled to California via a southerly route; the correspondence of a former ...

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