Messing with Maps: John C. Fremont edition

Tracing the route of an 1844 Western expedition

John Charles Fremont was a renowned American explorer, politician, and radical abolitionist. He was also a real asshole — which, believe me, is putting it nicely. During his 1846 expedition through California, Fremont and his killing partner Kit Carson perpetrated the Sacramento River Massacre, murdering hundreds of Indigenous Wintu people in northern C…