Ilene Stone: 1 book
Jessie Benton Frémont
Missouri's Trailblazer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
When Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, one of Missouri’s first two senators and the great-uncle of the famous regionalist painter of the same name, was expecting his second child in 1824, he hoped it would be a boy. Although he was graced instead with a second girl, he named her Jessie (in honor of his father,...
