On p. 225, n824, I wrote, “Hayes initially offered Fremont the territorial governorship of Idaho.  Fremont was worried about the climate in Idaho, as his son had tuberculosis, so he requested the Arizona Territory instead, hoping the drier air would do some good.  Fremont had a hard time winning Senate confirmation but after months of debate he was confirmed.  His new job paid only $217 a year, and Fremont spent an inordinate time away from Arizona by trying to improve his finances by soliciting potential investors for personal speculations into mining or cattle.  In referring to Governor John C. Fremont, it was written, “…on the face of it he seemed to be the carpetbagger par excellence.” Fremont was one of the great American tragedies.  he was a man with extraordinary potential, with exceptional connections through his wife, the daughter of powerful Senator Thomas Hart Benton.  Unfortunately he could never rise above the scandal his mother created by running away from a wealthy and well placed husband and taking up with Fremont’s father.  Illegitimate, John C. Fremont spent the rest of his life creating a fantasy father in much the same fashion as did Frank Waters.  Roberts, pp. 109-111.  He was a failure as a senator, was court-martialed for his role in the capture of California, and failed as a presidential contender and as a Civil War general.  it was as if “…he pursued an almost deliberate course towards disaster…”  He was “old before his time, tired, and guilty of so much self-deception that Josiah Royce, in his History of California, called him a fraud and a hypocrite.”  Every grand scheme he envisioned as Governor of the Arizona Territory “was a combination of the grand and the venal”.  Lamar, pp. 200-1, Rolle, p. 248.”