Jessie : a novel based on the life of Jessie Benton Frémont

Educated, ambitious, and brilliant in a time not quite ready for her, Jessie elopes with the young explorer Charles Fremont, at the age of 17, defying the wishes of her father, the powerful Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Jessie expected a life of boundless adventure. Instead, the two most important men in her life are about to alter the course of 19th century American history—but only with her help. REVIEWS: "Lulls the reader into forgetting this is fiction." ~Publishers Weekly REAL WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN WEST, in series order Libbie Sundance, Butch and Me Cherokee Rose Jessie