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	Zebulon Pike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The younger Pike grew to adulthood in a series of Midwestern outposts—the frontier of the United States at the time—in Ohio and Illinois.
		Pike married in 1801 and continued an unremarkable military career in logistics and payroll at a series of frontier posts.
		Zebulon M. Pike with the 4th Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zebulon_Pike (625 words)

	Pike County, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pike County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana.
		It was named for Zebulon M. Pike, mostly famous for the Pike Expedition of 1806 - 1807, exploring the southwest portion of the Louisiana Purchase.
		Pike was killed, in 1813, in the War of 1812.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pike_County,_Indiana (432 words)

	Kansas and Kansans Ch. 5 Pt. 1
		Pike was a good soldier, and he met a glorious death in the service of his country.
		The expedition was composed of Lieutenant Pike, Commanding; Lieutenant James B. Wilkinson; three non-commissioned officers; sixteen private soldiers; and two civilians, one of whom, John H. Robinson, was the surgeon, and the other, A. Baronet Vasquez, was the interpreter.
		Pike was halted on the 19th of August by a drift across the Little Osage, and there established Camp Independence, where he remained until the first of September.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/v1/ch5p1.html (3084 words)

	Zebulon Pike Bicentennial Page
		Pike soon became the protégé of James Wilkinson, the commanding general of the U.S. Army.
		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.
		Zebulon Pike was suspected of having a role in the "Burr Conspiracy" upon his return to the United States; although untrue, this tainted his career for some time.
	zebulonpike.org /pike-hardluck-explorer.htm (2051 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Zebulon Montgomery Pike, United States army officer and Western explorer, was born on January 5, 1779, at Lamberton, now a part of Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Isabella (Brown) and Zebulon Pike, a veteran of the American Revolution and a lieutenant colonel in the United States army.
		Pike was appointed major of the new Sixth Infantry regiment on May 2, 1808, and then lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Infantry on December 31, 1809.
		Pike published the journals of his explorations in 1810, supplemented with his correspondence with General Wilkinson, his speeches to the Indians, and detailed descriptions of the land through which he traveled, as An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and through the Western Parts of Louisiana.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/PP/fpi19.html (897 words)

	Zebulon M. Pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Zebulon M. Pike (1779-1813) a native of New Jersey, is best remembered today for discovering the peak in Colorado which bears his name.
		All of Pike’s maps, notes and papers became the property of the Spanish, with the party escorted through Santa Fe, across Texas and released on the Spanish-American border in Louisiana.
		Zebulon Pike died in action in the War of 1812 at the battle of York.
	klesinger.com /jbp/zpike.html (307 words)

	Zebulon Montgomery Pike
		General Pike landed with the main body as soon as practicable, and, the enemy's advanced parties falling back before him, he took one of the redoubts that had been constructed for the main defense of the place.
		General Pike landed with the main body as soon as practicable, and, the enemy's advanced parties falling back before him, he took one of the redoubts that had been constructed for the main defenee of the place.
		While General Pike and many of his soldiers were seated on the ground, the magazine of the fort exploded, a mass of stone fell upon him, and he was fatally injured, surviving but a few hours.
	www.famousamericans.net /zebulonmontgomerypike (1086 words)

	Following Pike's Expedition From the Smoky Hill to the Solomon, by Theodore H. Scheffer, Kansas Historical Quarterly, ...
		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.
		Well impressed, we are, with Pike's faithfulness to detail on a small-scale map, along the immediate course of his journey and in the range of his vision.
	www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1947/47_3_scheffer.htm (2962 words)

	Zebulon Pike explores Nebraska and the West
		Pike maintained a record of his experiences and his journal was published in 1810.
		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)

	Pike's Peak - LoveToKnow 1911
		PIKE'S PEAK, a famous peak of the Rampart range of the Rocky Mountains in El Paso county, Colorado, U.S.A., about 6 m.
		At the base of the mountain are Manitou and Colorado Springs, whence tourists can make the ascent of the peak (in summer safe and relatively simple) on horseback or by a cog-railway, 8.75 m.
		Pike's Peak was discovered in November 1806 by Lieut.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pike's_Peak (271 words)

	Zebulon Montgomery Pike
		Captain Zebulon Pike, the father, was an officer in the Revolutionary War.
		The same year (Sept. 29) he "caused the Spanish flag to be lowered and the flag of the United States to be raised" at Pawnee, Kansas, where a monument so stating was erected by the State of Kansas in 1901, at a cost of $3,000.
		It is stated that when the surgeons were carrying him from the field a tumultuous huzza was heard; Pike, turning his head with an anxious look of inquiry, was told by a sergeant: "The British Union Jack is coming down General; the Stars are going up!" He heaved a heavy sigh and smiled.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~nnnotables/zzmp.html (539 words)

	Zebulon Pike Bicentennial Page
		Communities all along Pike’s route, drawn to the saga of Pike’s adventures that literally unfolded in their own back yards, and aware that their communities were a direct result of the historical processes brought on in the wake of Pike’s endeavor, have likewise embraced the bicentennial as their own.
		Zebulon Pike's 1806 expedition camped in the vicinity of Dalziel's Grove, which is a privately owned historic grove of timber traversed by Cow Creek.
		Selected passages from Pike’s journal are superimposed on portions of the map face to give the viewer a sense of the adventure and hardships the expedition faced as they traced the route across Colorado.
	zebulonpike.org (1452 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Zebulon
		Pike, Zebulon Montgomery PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY [Pike, Zebulon Montgomery] 1779-1813, American explorer, an army officer, b.
		Vance, Zebulon Baird VANCE, ZEBULON BAIRD [Vance, Zebulon Baird] 1830-94, American political leader, Confederate governor of North Carolina (1862-65) in the Civil War, b.
		Pikes Peak PIKES PEAK [Pikes Peak] 14,110 ft (4,301 m) high, central Colo., in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.; discovered by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Zebulon (629 words)

	Lieutenant Facundo Melgares and The Spanish Troops in Kansas
		Pike's party followed the return route of Melgares south to the Arkansas River and along that stream into present Colorado to the point where the Spaniards left that river to head back to Santa Fe.
		Both Pike and Melgares were sent by their respective governments in 1806 with a major purpose to secure friendship, trade relations, and alliances with several Indian tribes of the region, including the Osage, Kansa, Pawnee, and Comanche.
		Pike was of similar background, born in New Jersey in 1779, son of a career army officer and himself a career officer.
	www.stjohnks.net /santafetrail/pike/facundo-melgares.html (1030 words)

	The Zebulon Pike Expedition 1806/07
		Zebulon M Pike, just returning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Mississippi River, expected to have a well deserved period of inactivity.
		Pike’s expeditionary party included 17 men from his failed Mississippi River expedition; two new volunteer soldiers; his second-in-command, Lt. James Biddle Wilkinson, son of the general; a volunteer physician, Dr. John H. Robinson; and Baronet Vasquez, an interpreter from St. Louis.
		It was at this time that Pike made a decision to continue west into the present State of Colorado, despite the fact that the party was ill prepared for winter climates, where they sighted the mountain, later named in Pike’s honor, on November 15, 1806.
	www.history1700s.com /articles/article1152.shtml (1196 words)

	Pike National Forest, Colorado Rocky Mountains, Front Range (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pike National Forest is comprised of 1,105,704 acres located in the Front Range and Mosquito Mountains.
		Pikes Peak is named for Zebulon M. Pike, leader of an expedition to explore the southwestern part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1806-07.
		In 1859, gold was discovered to the north and northwest of Pikes Peak, leading to the gold rush and the rallying cry of "Pikes Peak or Bust." These discoveries led to the first permanent Anglo settlements in the state.
	www.sangres.com /forest/forestpike.htm (569 words)

	The Scottish Rite Journal
		Pike hated war, but he loved nature and was convinced that man was brought closer to the Deity by the contemplation of His handiwork.
		Albert Pike School in Shelby County, Tennessee, was one of the first schools in the area, started on the first floor of the Albert Pike Masonic Lodge just prior to the start of the War Between the States.
		Pike is buried in a crypt in the House of the Temple.
	www.srmason-sj.org /web/journal-files/Issues/jun03/tresner.htm (2616 words)

	CHAPTER VII. THE SANTA FE TRAIL—EARLY EXPLORATIONS AND EXPLORERS.
		Zebulon M. Pike, of the Sixth U. Infantry, who, in 1806, was sent with 22 men to explore the country of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, and to establish a good understanding with the Indian tribes, particularly the Comanches.
		Pike, was: ‘‘military in the pure essence of the word, for, although they have their alcaldes, or inferior officers, their judgments are subject to a reversion by the military commandantes of districts.
		Pike and the publication of his book gave to Americans the first detailed description of the great wilderness lying to the west of them, and the advantages of establishing a trade with these distant provinces.
	southwest.library.arizona.edu /hav1/body.1_div.7.html (8452 words)

	Our Iowa: Its Beginnings and Growth Part 9
		Zebulon M. Pike, a young man, for the task.
		Pike and his party got to the mouth of the Des Moines River, which is now the southeast corner of Iowa, on August 20.
		Pike, however, did not himself mention the place or recommend it as a place for a fort.
	iagenweb.org /history/oibg/OIBG6.htm (2118 words)

	The Pike-Pawnee Flag Incident: Reexamining a Vexillological Legend
		Zebulon Pike’s exploration of Kansas was part of his second expedition.
		It probably was copied from Pike’s letterbook, one of the two documents not returned by the Mexican government in 1910.” Walker, a native of New Orleans, was a lieutenant in the Spanish dragoons.
		Zebulon Pike and his party of American explorers had stayed in this Republican Pawnee village during their trip across the Louisiana territory in 1806.
	aplatoff.home.mindspring.com /flags/pikepawnee.html (3743 words)

	ZEBULON PIKE JR. Autograph
		Pike's Account of the Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana (three volumes, 1810) contained the first reliable maps of the southwest region to appear in English.
		Pike was promoted to Colonel of the 15th Infantry in July 1812.
		Separated at upper and lower fold on Pike's side not touching text but with tape repairs at lower margin touching docket on his side and text on verso.
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=28178 (345 words)

	Pike State Forest Event
		Pike County was the first county formed after statehood; organized on Feb. 1, 1817.
		Pike State Forest was placed under the management of the Ferdinand State Forest in 1997.
		This 2939 acre forest in southwestern Indiana is located in Pike County four miles east of state road 61 on state road 364.
	home.insightbb.com /~jgvf65/Pike_State_Forest.HTM (689 words)

	Zebulon Pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Zebulon Pike was born on January 5, 1779 in Lamberton, N.J. In 1805, Pike went to the Army and he led some men around 2,000 miles in search of the head waters of the Mississippi River.
		When Pike was exploring the Red and Arkansas Rivers, he set camp in Pueblo, Colorado.
		In 1813, Zebulon Pike was killed on April 27 in the War of 1812.
	academy.d20.co.edu /hpe/melendez/Pike.html (143 words)

	Postage Stamps of Zebulon Pike Columbine Lark Bunting Blue Spruce Colorado flag
		The 14,110-foot Pike's Peak in Colorado was named after Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike who had been ordered to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers.
		They reached the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains and began climbing when Pike saw what he said appeared to be a "small blue cloud." The expedition had to end before reaching the peak due to dropping temperatures, driving winds and snow, for which they were unprepared.
		Pike rose to become a brigadier general in the War of 1812.
	www.postcardsfrom.com /stamp/stamp-co.html (355 words)

	Louisiana Purchase
		It was commanded by Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike, a young army officer, born in Lamberton, New Jersey, in 1779.
		Pike ascended the Arkansas to its sources near Leadville, and descended it to Cañon City.
		Pike was taken into Mexico as a prisoner, but after many journeys he was escorted through Texas and delivered to his countrymen at Natchitoches, Louisiana, on July 1, 1807.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/preservation/history/louis/chpt20.htm (1286 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Fort Union
		Zebulon M. Pike went west in 1806 to explore the Rocky Mountains, part of which the United States now owned as a result of the Louisiana Purchase.
		Wandering through the mountains in midwinter, Pike and his handful of men camped in January 1807 on the headwaters of the Rio Grande, in Colorado's San Luis Valley.
		The Pike journals, published in 1810, gave Americans their first glimpse of the people and way of life behind the wall of secrecy Spain had erected on the frontiers of New Mexico.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/35/hh35b.htm (1864 words)

	Dorothy Sloan – Rare Books: Auction 18: Lot 68
		The Outlines are from the Sketches of, but corrected and improved by Captain Zebulon M. Pike, who was conducted through that Country, in the Year 1807, by Order of the Commandant General of those Provinces.
		Although some authorities seem to have taken delight in belittling Pike's achievements, these maps of the Plains areas west from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains and through an important portion of these mountains are maps of outstanding historic interest....
		One of the intriguing cartographical controversies of the early nineteenth century was the dispute between Pike, Arrowsmith, and Humboldt regarding the genesis of their maps and who “borrowed” from whom.
	www.dsloan.com /Auctions/A18/lot_68.html (632 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pike, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1837 he was brought to the United States, and his family settled in Pike co., Ill. He worked on the Pittsfield, Ill., Free Press and was its editor and owner from 1854 to 1856.
		INTERVIEW: ROSAMUND PIKE - NAKED AMBITION; She could be heading for Hollywood but instead Bond girl Rosamund Pike is off to the West End in the hit play `Hitchcock Blonde'.
		Pike protection: There are some monsters in Red Lake, and they should stay there
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pike,&StartAt=11 (738 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first white explorers known to have visited Pike County were the members of the ill-fated Big Sandy expedition of 1756 led by Major Andrew Lewis.
		The first known permanent settlement in Pike County was made in 1790 at the mouth of Sycamore Creek, on Lower Johns Creek by the family of William Robert Lesley.
		Pike County, located in the heart of the Appalachian coal fields, has been one of the principal coal producing counties in the nation since 1910.
	www.tourpikecounty.com /history.htm (363 words)

	Pike County Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pike county was established in 1822 and named after Gen. Zebulon M. Pike (1799-1813), a frontier explorer and hero of the War of 1812.
		Pike County, Kentucky was formed from Floyd County.
		Paul Patton, former judge-executive of Pike County, is elected governor.
	www.kentuckyhighlands.com /kh/counties/pike_county.asp (468 words)

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