Above, a November 1957 cover of the pulp adventure magazine Saga, with art depicting John Charles Frémont, whose disastrous expedition through the U.S. Rocky Mountains scouting a route for a St. Louis/San Francisco railroad led to deaths, desertion and cannibalism. However, Frémont survived and later became the first ever Republican candidate for president, running on a radical anti-slavery platform.
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