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Expedition of John C. Fremont: June 26, 1848: August 9, 1848: Select Committee on Publication of the Results of the Exploring Expedition of John C. Fremont Select committee expired Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture: December 17, 1907: March 22, 1909: Became a standing committee March 22, 1909: April 18, 1921
The Fremont Cannon, the "largest and most expensive trophy in college football is a replica of a cannon that accompanied Captain John C. Frémont on his expedition through Oregon, Nevada and California in 1843–44".
Below is a continuation of the North America section of the List of library associations. Included are state associations, school library associations, and special library associations that are specific to an American state.
It is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada. It was founded on June 4, 1946, in Reno, Nevada, the last state in the United States to form a state library association. [1] [2]: 22 State Librarian Charles Marriage was one of its chief co-founders and its first president was Edward Castagna.
The Fremont Cannon is the trophy awarded to the winner of the Battle for Nevada (also known as the Nevada–UNLV football rivalry), an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Nevada Wolf Pack football team of the University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada) and the UNLV Rebels football team of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
The national convention was held on June 12 to 20, 1856 in New York. As John C. Frémont was the favorite to attain the Republican nomination there was a considerable desire for the North American party to nominate him, but it was feared that in doing so they may possibly injure his chances to actually become the Republican nominee.
The 1864 National Union National Convention was the United States presidential nominating convention of the National Union Party, which was a name adopted by the main faction of the Republican Party in a coalition with many, if not most, War Democrats after some Republicans and War Democrats nominated John C. Frémont over Lincoln.
Kit Carson and John C. Fremont rode into the valley, which was still under Mexican rule, during their survey of the Western United States in the mid-1840s. [1] In 1848, Mexico ceded the region to the United States after the Mexican–American War. [3] Soon afterwards, the California Gold Rush brought a wave of prospectors in search of fortune. [1]