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Read, Thomas Buchanan

Portrait of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, Wife of Gen. John Fremont

1856

Oil on canvas, gilded wooden frame

30 in x 24 1/2 in (76.2 cm x 62.23 cm)

Gift of Elizabeth Benton Fremont

81.G.2

Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West

Art and Artifacts

Painting by Thomas Buchanan Read, Portrait of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, Wife of Gen. John Fremont, 1856.

Jessie Benton Fremont

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Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West

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The letters of Jessie Benton Fremont edited by Pamela Herr and Mary Lee Spence. cover

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Beyond Lewis & Clark the Army explores the West / James P. Ronda. page 32

Why we remember United States history through reconstruction / Herman J. Viola ; contributing author, Diane Hart. page 374

Imperfect union how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War / Steve Inskeep. Insert page one (top left)