The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
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Total Pages | : 955 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
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Total Pages | : 955 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
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Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
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Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
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Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
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Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Americana |
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Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
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Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
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Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
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Author | : Matthew L. Harris |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2012-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806188448 |
In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries—explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity. It does so by providing a nuanced assessment of Pike and his actions within the larger context of American imperial ambition in the time of Jefferson. Pike’s accomplishments as an explorer and mapmaker and as a soldier during the War of 1812 has been tainted by his alleged connection to Aaron Burr’s conspiracy to separate the trans-Appalachian region from the United States. For two hundred years historians have debated whether Pike was an explorer or a spy, whether he knew about the Burr Conspiracy or was just a loyal foot soldier. This book moves beyond that controversy to offer new scholarly perspectives on Pike’s career. The essayists—all prominent historians of the American West—examine Pike’s expeditions and writings, which provided an image of the Southwest that would shape American culture for decades. John Logan Allen explores Pike’s contributions to science and cartography; James P. Ronda and Leo E. Oliva address his relationships with Native peoples and Spanish officials; Jay H. Buckley chronicles Pike’s life and compares Pike to other Jeffersonian explorers; Jared Orsi discusses the impact of his expeditions on the environment; and William E. Foley examines his role in Burr’s conspiracy. Together the essays assess Pike’s accomplishments and shortcomings as an explorer, soldier, empire builder, and family man. Pike’s 1810 journals and maps gave Americans an important glimpse of the headwaters of the Mississippi and the southwestern borderlands, and his account of the opportunities for trade between the Mississippi Valley and New Mexico offered a blueprint for the Santa Fe Trail. This volume is the first in more than a generation to offer new scholarly perspectives on the career of an overlooked figure in the opening of the American West.
Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
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Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Stephen Harding Hart |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826333902 |
This valuable and long-out-of-print edition of Pike's Southwestern journals is being reissued on the bicentennial of the journey with a new Introduction by historian Mark L. Gardner.
Author | : Elliott Coues |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 789 |
Release | : 2023-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
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"The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike" is an account of the two expeditions of the American explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike to headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana territory and in New Spain, written from his memory after the Spanish authorities had confiscated his journals. In the summer of 1805 general James Wilkinson, appointed Governor of the Upper Louisiana Territory, ordered Pike to locate the source of the Mississippi River, explore the northern portion of the newly created Louisiana Territory, and expel Canadian fur traders illegally trading in the borders of the United States. After he returned from this first expedition, Wilkinson almost immediately ordered him to mount a second expedition, this time to explore, map, and find the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers. Additional objectives of this exploratory expedition into the southwestern part of the Louisiana Territory were to evaluate natural resources and establish friendly relations with Native Americans. Pike's second expedition crossed the Rocky Mountains into what is now southern Colorado, which led to his capture by the Spanish colonial authorities near Santa Fe, who sent Pike and his men to Chihuahua (present-day Mexico), for interrogation. Later in 1807, Pike and some of his men were escorted by the Spanish through Texas and released near American territory in Louisiana. This carefully crafted DigiCat ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.