The ever-erratic John C. Fremont, Pathfinder of the West, created for himself one of the wildest careers in American history. When he came to lead the Union efforts in the key theater of Missouri in 1861, he changed not one bit. The result was an intricate story of political tennis culminating in another strange episode of a life filled with strange episodes.

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