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	Zebulon Pike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zebulon Montgomery Pike (January 5, 1779–April 27, 1813) was an American soldier and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zebulon_Pike (621 words)

	Zebulon Pike: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pikes peak (formerly pikes peak, see below) is a mountain in the front range of the rocky mountains, near colorado springs, colorado....
		United states army captain zebulon pike led the pike expedition (july 15, 1806 - july 1, 1807) to explore the south and west of the louisiana...
		Pike left St. Louis by keelboat on August 9 with a force of 20 soldiers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/z/ze/zebulon_pike.htm (1642 words)

	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.
		Along the way, Pike's party was treated with respect and celebrated by the Mexican locals, and Pike made careful notes of the military strength and civilian population.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pike_expedition (1012 words)

	Zebulon Pike: Hard Luck :: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/zebulon_pike.html (1715 words)

	Pike, Zebulon Montgomery on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pike and his men went up the Arkansas River to the site of Pueblo, Colo., and explored much of the country, sighting the peak that is named after him, Pikes Peak.
		Upon his return, Pike was accused of complicity in the plot of Aaron Burr and James Wilkinson to detach Western territory from the United States, but he was exonerated by the Secretary of War.
		Pike was promoted to the rank of brigadier general during the War of 1812.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/pike-z1eb.asp (398 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 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)

	AnswerBus Question Answering System - ... is Zebulon Pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zebulon Pike 's claim to history is the discovery of the peak in Colorado that bears his name Pikes Peak.
		The American explorer and soldier Zebulon Pike was born in Lamberton (now a part of Trenton), New Jersey, on the 5th of January 1779, son of Zebulon Pike (1751-1834), an officer in the American army.
		Zebulon Pike was assigned the duty of exploring the source of the Mississippi River in 1805
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	Zebulon Pike Bicentennial Page
		Pike's early duties along the Ohio frontier consisted of supervising the transportation and distribution of supplies to the various frontier posts.
		Pike almost certainly knew nothing of the Wilkinson/Burr intrigues, but was aware that his service to gather as much intelligence about the Spanish as possible for his country was important.
		Zebulon Pike never set foot on Pike's Peak, although in their attempt to reach their goal the group scaled 11,499-foot Mt.
	zebulonpike.org /pike-hardluck-explorer.htm (2051 words)

	Zebulon Pike
		During a battle in the War of 1812 Pike was injured by accident and died on April 27, 1813 at the age of 34.
		Pike's adventure was spurred by the Louisiana Purchase, the same land deal that launched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their trek to the Pacific.
		Pike's journey has to be seen in the context of the suspicion and hostility between the United States and Spain over the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase.
	www.d11.org /bristol/Bristol_Wall/1860/front_1860_zebpike.htm (1452 words)

	Zebulon Pike Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zebulon Pike was born on January 5, 1779, in Lamberton, New Jersey.
		In 1794, Pike was a Cadet in the army serving in his Fathers regiment.
		By 1805, Pike was placed in charge of a mission to explore the source of the Mississippi River.
	www.paralumun.com /expike.htm (66 words)

	Zebulon Pike Biography / Biography of Zebulon Pike Biography
		The career of Zebulon Pike (1779-1813), American soldier and explorer, was dominated by ambiguously motivated explorations of the American West.
		Zebulon Pike was the son of a U.S. Army major of the same name.
		Zebulon was born on Jan. 5, 1779, in Lamberton (now Trenton), N.J. He entered his father's company as a cadet and was commissioned a first lieutenant when he was 20 years old.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-zebulon-pike (257 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)

	Pike County, Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pike County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas.
		The county was formed on November 1, 1833 and named for Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, the explorer who discovered Pike's Peak.
		It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pike_County,_Arkansas (419 words)

	mrpike1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Historians are undecided as to whether Pike strayed or intended to spy.
		Pikes Peak in Colorado, which was first sighted by him on this expedition, bears his name.
		During the War of 1812, as a brigadier general, Pike directed the assault on the town of York (now Toronto), Canada, and during the fighting he was killed by the explosion of a powder magazine.
	members.aol.com /zebpikedar/mrpike.html (132 words)

	Zebulon Pike
		Pike's first assignment, in 1805, was to trace the Mississippi River from St. Louis to northern Minnesota.
		On November 24, Pike and three other men left their party camped near the Arkansas River (at the location of present-day Pueblo), and hiked north toward the peak.
		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)

	Handbook of Texas Online: PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY
		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_print.html (900 words)

	Zebulon Montgomery Pike, American Philosophical Society
		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.
		In July 1806, Pike crossed Missouri and Kansas, by late November reaching (but not ascending) the peak that was later named after him in the front range of the Colorado Rockies.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/p/pike.htm (1046 words)

	MPR: Revisiting Zebulon Pike's expedition to Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zebulon Pike was a 26-year old Army lieutenant when he made his way up the Mississippi River to Minnesota.
		Doug Birk thinks Zebulon Pike's accomplishments have been unfairly overlooked, and the man deserves more respect -- especially for his observations of the weather, the wilderness and life in Minnesota 200 years ago.
		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 (1156 words)

	Zebulon Pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zebulon Pike - Pike earned the nickname "the lost pathfinder" due to his misadventures in exploring the headwaters of the Mississippi, and later the Arkansas River.
		It is suspected by many that his true mission in exploring the Arkansas may have been to investigate Spanish positions south of the American territory.
		Pike's maps of the southern portion of the Louisiana Territory proved invaluable to future explorers and settlers.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/firstyears/terms/char_8.html (68 words)

	ZEBULON PIKE TO SANTA FE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pike's mission was to evaluate the possibilities of trade with New Mexico.
		After their introduction to Alencaster Pike and his men were given a grand Spanish tour, which included a 600-mile voyage to Chihuahua, Mexico to meet General Nemesio Salcedo, Commandant General of all Spanish forces in Northern Mexico.
		So promising were Pike's published words concerning the forbidden Spanish province that it served to inflame the seemingly endless American appetite for exploration, trade, and the possibility of a new source of gold, Spanish gold.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/great_american_plains/78844 (449 words)

	SLV Dweller: Zebulon Pike: Explorer & Spy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pike and his 23 men were arrested in the San Luis Valley near Sanford, deep in Spanish territory.
		Pike was promoted for his exploration of Colorado and surrounding territories.
		During the War of 1812, Pike distinguished himself on several occasions and by March 1813 rose to rank of brigadier general.
	www.slvdweller.com /archives/002185.html (205 words)

	Zebulon Montgomery Pike: American Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
		Pike was sent to Minnesota by General James Wilkinson (Governor of the Louisiana Territory) to search for the source of the Mississippi River in 1805.
		Pike led a crew of 20 men from St. Louis to upper Minnesota during the fall and winter.
		General Pike died in 1813 during the War of 1812 at the battle of York (in Canada); Pike commanded the American troops at the battle of York.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/p/pike.shtml (343 words)

	ColoradoInfo.com \| Zebulon Pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pike promptly lowered the American flag when informed he was not on the Red River, but rather on a branch of the Rio Grand.
		The Spanish rescued the rest of Pike's men and all were held captive in Santa Fe and Chihuhua before being escorted through Texas to the Louisiana border and released.
		Brigadier General Zebulon Pike, died a hero in the battle of York, Canada, in 1813.
	www.coloradoinfo.com /travel.asp?pageid=19\|25\|340 (735 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)

	Zebulon Pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	Pike's Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

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