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John C. Fremont & The California and Oregon Trails (1841 – 1845): As the fur trade collapses, mountain men push into Oregon, carrying violence and disease in their wake. California, thinly held by a faltering Mexican government, stands exposed—vast, remote, and still largely unknown. Into this shifting frontier rides John C. Frémont, an obscure topographical engineer with powerful political allies, tasked with mapping the Oregon Trail but drawn ever southward. With the election of expansionist James K. Polk, Manifest Destiny becomes national policy and Texas is absorbed into the union. As clouds of war between Mexico and America begin to gather, what future awaits California on the edge of empire?

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