ioi on Nostr: John Fremont ，the California's first Congressman，had led four expeditions to the ...

John Fremont ，the California's first Congressman，had led four expeditions to the Far West and nearly died on the fourth expedition in the Sangre de Mountains. He had his eye on a ranch in California and asked a friend to do it. But the friend bought the lush pasture himself and gave Fremont another piece of land that could not be farmed or grazed in the Sierra Nevada, hundreds of miles up the mountain road from San Francisco.

A few years later, the gold Rush of the Far West came, and the mountains of Fremont were the mother mine for Western gold. Fremont became the first billionaire on Capitol Hill.

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