Join host Jack Maddox as he explores how John C. Frémont transformed the American West from rumor into reality. Discover the remarkable team behind the maps that sparked westward expansion: surveyor Frémont, German cartographer Charles Preuss, and writer Jessie Benton Frémont, whose 1840s expedition reports provided the first reliable guide to the Oregon Trail and changed a nation forever.

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