COCHETOPA PASS/ Gwenn Harris Heape, 1854. Public Domain
Carlos Pitts
Born into a family with a proud naval heritage, fifteen-year-old Edward Fitzgerald Beale was appointed to the Philadelphia Naval School by President Andrew Jackson in 1837. Posted as private secretary to Captain Robert F. Stockton in 1845, Beale garnered a temporary duty assignment to board a Danish ship in the Caribbean, sail to England in mufti, and generate intelligence on the Oregon boundary i…
