Imperfect UnionBy: Steve Inskeep Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frmont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frmont, one of the United Statess leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few