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Title: Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Subjects: Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Discoveries in geography Explorers
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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oading too, with which the trapperswere provided. Almost every other kind of animal knownon this continent was found here: deer, elk, mountain sheep,goats, cougars (the so-called mountain lions), wild cats,wolves, lynx, rabbits, pine and sage hens, grouse, turkeys,quail, trout and other fish, lizards of many sizes up to theGila monster (Heloderma suspectum), a poisonous creaturetwo feet long much dreaded, scorpions, centipedes, tarantu-las, several species of rattlesnake, and, on the coast, sealsand sea lions. In the way of vegetation there were some extraordinaryspecies to keep pace with the animals. The most remark-able is the giant ancient trees, the oldest reaching backfor their beginning more than a thousand years (1335 byactual count of the annual rings of one). These grow in theSierra Nevada in a limited area and have been named The Extermination of the American Bison, by William T. Horaaday,Washington, 1889. Also, Reports oj the American Bison Society, New YorkZoological Park.
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« Q O 2 g> 2 o2 P. Singular Trees 27 Sequoia gigantea,^ after Sequoyah (Latinised) the inventorof the Cherokee syllabary. They rise to a height of morethan three hundred feet. The allied and more abimdantredwood (Sequoia sempervirens) also grows to an unusualheight. It is seldom found more than twenty-five milesfrom the ocean. Another indigenous tree of great import-ance is the pinon or pinyon (Pinus edulis), a small pine,bearing in profusion an exceedingly palatable and nutritiousnut, upon which the tribes of its habitat rely for a part oftheir subsistence. Like the sequoia the pinyon is confinedto a limited area, though an area of considerable extent.Many singular plants exist: cacti, yucca, etc., and on thedesert-like plains of southern Nevada and southern Cali-fornia, is one of the strangest, the tree yucca (Clistoyuccaarborescens), or Joshua tree, illustrated on opposite page,growing to a height of about twenty feet.^ The human population was large but widely scattered.It bel

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