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Author | : Matthew L. Harris |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2012-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806188448 |
Download Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Kekla Magoon |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781604535181 |
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Presents the life and expeditions of explorer Zebulon Pike, chronicling his journeys into both the American Northwest and the Mexican territory of the Southwest.
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Publisher | : Pikes Peak Library District |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1567352537 |
Download "To Spare No Pains": Zebulon Montgomery Pike and His 1806-1807 Southwest Expedition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jared Orsi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199768722 |
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A historian offers the biography of the soldier and explorer for whom Pike's Peak is named, describing his amazing expeditions through areas that would become modern-day Mississippi, Minnesota and Arkansas before being captured by the Spanish.
Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 955 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Download The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Stephen Harding Hart |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826333902 |
Download The Southwestern Journals of Zebulon Pike, 1806-1807 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Dissected Lives |
Publisher | : Speedy Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 2019-11-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1541952634 |
Download Zebulon Pike Expeditions and Other Adventure | The Life and Times of America's Great Explorer | Biography 5th Grade | Children's Biographies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Let’s talk about the expeditions of Zebulon Pike. He was an American brigadier general and adventurer who explored the new Louisiana territory. Because of his significance contribution to the US expansion, the El Capitan mountain in Colorado was named after him - the Pikes Peak. Read more about the life, times and adventure of Zebulon Pike. Read this book today.
Author | : Zebulon Montgomery Pike |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
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Author | : William Dunbar |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
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Description: 3 volumes (bound together). This collection includes three journals bound into one volume: two by William Dunbar and one by Zebulon Pike. Both manuscripts by William Dunbar document the expedition up the Red and Ouachita Rivers to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in 1804-1805. The "Journal... to the Mouth of the Red River" (200p.) is the fullest available record of the activities of the expedition from the time of their departure from St. Catharine's Landing on October 16, 1804, until their return to Natchez, Miss., on January 26, 1805. The "Journal of a geometrical survey" includes a record of course and distances as well as a thermometric log and other brief notes. The two are bound together in a volume with Zebulon Montgomery Pike's journal of a voyage to the source of the Mississippi, 1805-1806. 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. Less a literary masterpiece than a straightforward record in terse military prose, the journal provides a day by day account of the journey and the activities of Pike and his small contingent during this early exploration of present day Minnesota. It was printed with variations and omissions in An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and through the Western Parts of Louisiana... (Philadelphia, 1810), and was edited in Donald Jackson, ed., The Journals of Zebulon Pike: with Letters and Related Documents (Norman, Okla., 1966).
Author | : Charles W. Maynard |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2002-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780823962860 |
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Chronicles Zebulon Pike's exploration of territories within the Louisiana Purchase early in the nineteenth century, including his discovery of what is now known as Pike's Peak.