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	Pike expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roughly contemporaneous with the Lewis and Clark expedition, Pike's excursion was the first American effort to explore the western Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and marked the discovery of Pikes Peak.
		Finally, the expedition was to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers, and explore the length of the Red to its mouth on the Mississippi.
		Pike and some of his party were escorted north, through San Antonio, Texas, arriving at the border with Louisiana at Natchitoches on July 1, 1807.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pike_expedition (1020 words)

	Zebulon Pike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pike grew to adulthood in a series of Midwestern outposts—then the frontier of the United States—in Ohio and Illinois.
		Pike married in 1801 and continued an unremarkable military career in logistics and payroll at a series of frontier posts.
		Pike County, Illinois, Pike County, Indiana, Pike County, Ohio, Pike County, Alabama, Pike County, Georgia, USS General Pike, Fort Pike and Pikes Peak are named in his honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zebulon_Pike (634 words)

	The Museum Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pike's second expedition, 1806-1807, was designed to accomplish several goals, including providing an escort for some Osage Indian travelers from St. Louis back to their villages; negotiating a peace between the Kansas and Pawnee tribes; and attempting to make contact with the Comanche people on the high plains.
		Pike was also to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas River, then to proceed south, locate the source of the Red River, and descend it to the Mississippi.
		Pike's expedition was launched by Gen. James Wilkinson without the authorization of President Jefferson or the War Department, although it was approved retroactively.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/Gazettes/ZebPike.html (1689 words)

	Zebulon Pike
		Pike was to provide an escort for some Osage Indians who had been held as hostages by the Pottawatamies, and take them back to their home villages; negotiate a peace settlement between the Kansas and Pawnee tribes; and attempt to make contact with the Comanche people on the high plains.
		Pike was an excellent observer, and was able to make mental notes of the placement of forts, the size of their garrisons, the locations of communities, and to prepare biographical sketches of their officers.
		In summary, Zebulon Pike was a frontier patriot, an army brat, a determined military commander, an outdoorsman, a leader of men, a mediocre explorer, and a daring, observant spy for the United States.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/Circa1804/WestwardExpansion/EarlyExplorers/ZebulonPike.htm (6758 words)

	Colorado History - The Expeditions of Zebulon Pike
		Pike was to lead this expedition and was sent by General Wilkinson who had served in the Revolution.
		Pike had 18 enlisted men, Wilkinson, an interpreter, and Dr. Robinson the "mystery man." This was the first official US presence in Colorado.
		Pikes Peak was usually the first landmark seen by the new settlers as they made their way across the praire.
	mr_sedivy.tripod.com /colorado14.html (878 words)

	Pike's Expedition - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Between the mouth of the Saline and the Republican rivers, Pike crossed the trail of this party, but was fortunate in not coming in contact with the Spaniards at that time.
		Here the expedition was divided, part returning down the Arkansas and the other portion going on up to the mountains for the purpose of discovering the headwaters of Red river, and descending that unknown stream—unknown to the Americans.
		The Spanish governor suspected that Pike was leagued with Aaron Burr to detach a portion of Spanish territory.
	www.skyways.kumc.edu /genweb/archives/1912/p/pikes_expedition.html (1509 words)

	Zebulon Pike explores Nebraska and the West
		This expedition was the brainchild of General James Wilkinson, a newly appointed governor of the Louisiana Territory.
		Pike also wrote in his journal that Spanish authority in Santa Fe was weak and that there was every likelihood of being able to develop a profitable trade with Mexico.
		Pike was killed in the War of 1812 at the battle of York.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0400/stories/0401_0110.html (799 words)

	Early Explorations and Expeditions, Part 4
		The Spanish expedition was planned and executed after the news of Pike's preparations was known in New Mexico, and with such celerity as to have forestalled and partially defeated one of its designs, which was to thwart and turn back Pike's party.
		Pike was planned in April, 1806, on the return of that officer from a successful tour of discovery and exploration to the head waters of the Mississippi.
		Pike thus writes in his journal September 14: "On the march, we were continually passing through large herds of buffaloes, elk and cabrie; and I have no doubt but one hunter could support 200 men.
	www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/deschist/earlyexp-p4.html (2721 words)

	Following Pike's Expedition From the Smoky Hill to the Solomon, by Theodore H. Scheffer, Kansas Historical Quarterly, ...
		The latter published documents, letters and maps of the expedition that had been taken from Pike by the Spanish authorities of the Southwest and had reposed in the archives at Mexico City for one hundred years where they were found in 1907-1908.
		At any rate, Pike seems to have had plenty of material at hand for his own publication of his travels, in 1810, at least so far as the journey to the Arkansas was concerned.
		Pike's route (shown by the broken line) is marked by the following major stops: (1) The halt for breakfast, September 17, 1806; (2) Mulberry creek camp, September 17-18; (3) Rockyfern creek camp, September 18-21; (4) Lost creek camp, September 21-22; (5) First creek camp, September 22-23; (6) the morning's halt on Fisher creek, September 23.
	www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1947/47_3_scheffer.htm (2962 words)

	Zebulon Pike
		After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson dispatched the Lewis and Clark expedition and Zebulon Montgomery Pike's expedition to survey and map the boundless western regions that had suddenly become part of the United States.
		Pike's first assignment, in 1805, was to trace the Mississippi River from St. Louis to northern Minnesota.
		Pike was killed in the War of 1812, just six years after his western expedition, at the age of 34.
	www.zmoon.com /pptravel/essays/pike.html (343 words)

	THE PIKE EXPEDITION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The expedition was lost, the men were nearly starved, and several of them were painfully frostbitten.
		After arranging a rescue mission for his impaired and wounded, Pike and the rest of his explorers were escorted to Santa Fe as prisoners and later taken to Chihuahua.
		Pike set up camp for the night on the south bank of the river, directly opposite Lodge of the Four Seasons, mile marker 13.
	www.angelfire.com /mo/borderstar/pike.html (2384 words)

	MPR: Revisiting Zebulon Pike's expedition to Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pike set out to explore the river's course and meet with Indian tribes and trappers.
		But some historians say Pike deserves more respect, and are working to reawaken interest in the expedition.
		And while Lt. Zebulon Pike may be remembered as a gutsy explorer, he's also a controversial figure as well.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2005/11/14_postt_zebpike?rsssource=1 (1143 words)

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		Pike was instructed to seek out headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers and to investigate Spanish settlements in New Mexico.
		Pike and his men left Missouri and traveled through the present-day states of Kansas and Nebraska before reaching Colorado, where he spotted the famous mountain later named in his honor.
		Pike later served as a brigadier general during the War of 1812, and in April 1813 he was killed by a British gunpowder bomb after leading a successful attack on York, Canada.
	www.gigfoot.net /lol/facts/865.html (292 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pike expedition
		Lewis and Clark The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804â€“1806) was the first United States overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back, led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark.
		Pikes Peak (formerly Pikes Peak, see below) is a mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, 10 miles west of Colorado Springs, Colorado, in El Paso County.
		November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pike-expedition (2562 words)

	Pike's Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zebulon Montgomery Pike was an anonymous, twenty-six year-old army lieutenant when General James Wilkinson dispatched him to explore the upper reaches of the Mississippi River in the fall and winter of 1805-1806.
		Pike crossed the Central Plains and the Rockies, in the process traversing the contested boundary of Louisiana.
		Although Pike kept a log during the expedition, he lost the volume before he returned.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~landc/html/pike.html (233 words)

	History of Discoveries - Annual Meeting 2003 Abstracts
		Pike’s 1806-07 expedition route and associated accusations in the literature that he was a puppet on orders from his superior officer to spy on the Spanish frontier and Empire of the Southwest.
		Zebulon Montgomery Pike (age 26) left St. Louis for the “Mexican Mountains.” His objective was discovery and exploration to the headwaters of the Red River, the southern boundary of the new territory acquisitions from the French.
		Pike himself in his journal and letters perhaps best tells the story of the tour, and its accomplishments are similarly recorded in his cartography.
	www.sochistdisc.org /annual_meetings/annual_2003/annual_meeting_2003_abstracts.htm (4142 words)

	ipedia.com: Pike expedition Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		United States Army Captain Zebulon Pike led the Pike expedition to explore the south and west of the Louisiana Purchase.
		Roughly contemporaneous with the Lewis and Clark expedition, Pike's excursion w...
		Their path across the west would form the kernel of the Santa Fe Trail, used by thousands of American pioneers.
	www.ipedia.com /pike_expedition.html (1178 words)

	Festival of Adventures & Wm. Aitkin Fur Trade Rendezvous - Aitkin Minnesota
		Pike commanded a party of men from the First Regiment of the United States Infantry on the mission,which included as an objective, the reconnaissance of British fur trade operations in the upper Mississippi region.
		Pike noted the details of his visit to the our area in his journal and made notes as to the layout of the Cedar lake post.
		During the War of 1812, as a brigadier general, Pike directed the assault on the town of York (Toronto), Canada, and during the battle was killed by the accidental explosion of a powder magazine.
	www.aitkin.com /fest/pike.htm (741 words)

	Zebulon Pike Bicentennial Page
		The bicentennial of the Zebulon M. Pike Military Expedition to the American Southwest will occur in the years 2006 and 2007.
		The Pike Commission: SFTA President Hal Jackson has appointed the five-member Zebulon M. Pike Expedition Bicentennial Commission to oversee planning and scheduling of events during 2006 and 2007.
		In addition, the Commission plans to devote attention to the expedition of Spanish troops led by Facundo Melgares that crossed the plains looking for Pike a few weeks before Pike arrived on the scene, going to the same Pawnee village in southern Nebraska which Pike later visited.
	zebulonpike.org (252 words)

	Zebulon Pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Presents a biography of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, and a description, complete with fold-out maps, of his Mississippi River expedition.
		Pike's Peak is a famous mountain in Colorado, attracting climbers from all over.
		Pike's Peak is also in the Midwest, McGregor, Iowa, to be exact.
	www.rbls.lib.il.us /sel/zebulon_pike.htm (182 words)

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		An American soldier and explorer in the early 19th century, Zebulon Pike led the Pike Expedition to explore the western and southern areas of the Louisiana Purchase.
		His expedition was the first American attempt to explore the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and the western Great Plains.
		Whereas Zebulon Montgomery Pike and his expedition found the area of present day Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado and the headwaters of the Rio Grande, which he mistakenly thought was the Red River; and
	salazar.senate.gov /news/releases/050927zebpike.htm (579 words)

	Zebulon M. Pike Expedition - Bicentennial Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Santa Fe Trail Association (SFTA), a national non-profit corporation headquartered at the Santa Fe Trail Center at Larned, KS, is sponsoring and planning the bicentennial commemoration of the Pike Expedition.
		Pike's explorations and the subsequent publication of his Journal (1810 and several later editions) led to the opening of the Santa Fe Trail, which resulted in the acquisition of the Southwest for the nation.
		Everyone is invited to participate in the activities of the Pike Bicentennial and to join the Santa Fe Trail Association (opens a new window) to receive the articles and keep up with bicentennial plans.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /orgs/p2c (343 words)

	- City News
		Pike's World: Exploration and Empire in the Greater Southwest, the first of three exhibits commemorating the Bicentennial, opens at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum amidst a variety of historic presentations and demonstrations designed for children and adults alike.
		Pike's 1806 expedition is important because it represents the young nation's initial steps toward understanding the immensity of its southwestern expanse, with its varied landscapes and peoples, and its new relationship with the nations within and around its borders.
		Throughout 2006, the Pioneers Museum will commemorate the Zebulon Pike Bicentennial by offering a series of exhibits, public programs, events and activities that raise awareness of Pike, his 1806 expedition and its lasting legacy in shaping the identity of the Pike's Peak Region.
	www.springsgov.com /NewsResults.asp?NewsID=2184 (672 words)

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		Families can enjoy a variety of performances and hands-on activities exploring life on the expedition and the remarkable changes to Minnesota in the years that followed.
		Zebulon Pike and a contingent of soldiers explored the Upper Mississippi River for the U.S. government in 1805-06 in an expedition that was the northern counterpart to the Lewis and Clark expedition.
		Pike’s search for the source of the Mississippi, though unsuccessful, was part of an effort to establish the northern boundary of the United States after the Louisiana Purchase.
	www.mnhs.org /events/press/050913-051003.htm (378 words)

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		The Pike journal documents the expedition to explore the geography of the Mississippi River led by Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike in 1805-1806, and his attempts to purchase sites from the Dakota Indians for future military posts, and to bring influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks.
		Enlisting as a cadet at the age of 15 while his father was stationed in Cincinnati, Pike served in a succession of forts on the Ohio frontier, Kentucky, and Illinois, rising through the ranks of the Provisional Army on the strength of a record that was distinguished more by ambition than actual achievement.
		Bereft of any semblance of appropriate training for conducting a scientific expedition, Pike set off without even an interpreter or surgeon in his party and with only a limited idea of what he was to accomplish.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/p/pike.xml (1051 words)

	Zebulon Pike Documentary Film - “Zebulon Pike and the Blue Mountain, Directed by John Johnson
		Following Lewis and Clark’s expedition to the Northwest and after Pike’s first expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi, Pike’s second Western expedition through the Southwest began in 1806 to 1807.
		“Zebulon Pike and the Blue Mountain” focuses on the painful experience these men endured and sets their story into the context of American history and Western exploration.
		Photographed where it happened with the advisement of experts on: Pike (W. Eugene Hollon, author of “The Lost Pathfinder”), the military (James Kochan, U.S. Army Historian for the period 1783 to 1830), Indian tribes and the era (National Archives and the Smithsonian).
	www.zebulonpike.net (327 words)

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