Jacob Dodson was an African-American member of John C. Fremont's group of explorers who traversed Nevada in the mid-1840s. Dodson was one of the first know persons of African descent to enter the territory of Nevada. Dodson, a free black, was employed as Fremont's personal valet as early as 1843. He accompanied Fremont on his […]

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