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Who was Zebulon Pike?

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Who was Zebulon Pike?

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Most Americans could, with reason, ask that question. Most who could draw a reasonable map of the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition would have little idea of where Zebulon Pike explored, or when. And few historians, if challenged, could name a single man who explored with Pike. The only remembrance we have of Pike is a famous peak in Colorado, but whether Pike ever saw the peak, or ever climbed it, is also a mystery to most Americans Donald Jackson, the editor of Pike’s letters and journals, wrote: “Nothing that Zebulon Montgomery Pike ever tried to do was easy, and most of his luck was bad.” Dubbed “The Lost Pathfinder” by his biographer, W. Eugene Hollon, Pike remains an indistinct historical figure. Pike has been called a “poor man’s Lewis and Clark;” and his expedition to the southwest in 1806 characterized as “second only to Lewis and Clark” in the annals of frontier exploration. In reality, Zebulon Pike was a relatively unlettered military man who was ill-prepared to lead t

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The first American to explore the Santa Fe Trail in 1806. Three year before, in 1803, the United States had purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. This is called the Louisiana Purchase, and it doubled the size of the United States. The territory included land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. From 1804 to 1806, the Lewis and Clark Expedition explored this newly acquired area. They traveled from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. In 1805, Zebulon Pike had traveled northward to the source of the Mississippi River. In Spring, 1806, the U.S. Army sent Lieutenant Pike on a military expedition to explore the Spanish Southwest. He was twenty-seven years old. Pike and twenty men began in St. Louis, Missouri. One of these men was a civilian named John Robinson. Robinson told Pike he wanted to recover goods that had been stolen from him in the Southwest. It is possible, however, that Robinson was a spy. The expedition traveled up the M

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