In Souvenirs of my Time, writer and political activist Jessie Benton Fr�mont, recounts episodes of her life in the high echelons of American politics and European courts in the middle of the 19th century. As the wife of military officer, explorer and politician, John C. Fr�mont and the daughter of senator Thomas Hart Benton, Jessie Benton Fr�mont was familiar with presidents and diplomats from a young age, and came to be a force in her own right.
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In Souvenirs of my Time, writer and political activist Jessie Benton Fr�mont, recounts episodes of her life in the high echelons of American politics and European courts in the middle of the 19th century. As the wife of military officer, explorer and politician, John C. Fr�mont and the daughter of senator Thomas Hart Benton, Jessie Benton Fr�mont was familiar with presidents and diplomats from a young age, and came to be a force in her own right.
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