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Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Author : Matthew L. Harris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188448
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West written by Matthew L. Harris and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Author : Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 955 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike written by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Citizen Explorer

Author : Jared Orsi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199768722
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Explorer written by Jared Orsi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Southwestern Journals of Zebulon Pike, 1806-1807

Author : Stephen Harding Hart
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826333902
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Southwestern Journals of Zebulon Pike, 1806-1807 written by Stephen Harding Hart and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Author : Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike written by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Zebulon Pike Expedition

Author : Kekla Magoon
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781604535181
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Zebulon Pike Expedition written by Kekla Magoon and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and expeditions of explorer Zebulon Pike, chronicling his journeys into both the American Northwest and the Mexican territory of the Southwest.

The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805

Author : William Dunbar
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807131652
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805 by : William Dunbar

Download or read book The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805 written by William Dunbar and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The team of the "Grand Expedition," as it was optimistically named, was the first to send its findings on the newly annexed territory to the president, who received Dunbar and Hunter's detailed journals with pleasure. They include descriptions of flora and fauna, geology, weather, landscapes, and native peoples and European settlers, as well as astronomical and navigational records that allowed the first accurate English maps of the region and its waterways to be produced. Their scientific experiments conducted at the hot springs may be among the first to discover a microscopic phenomena still under research today."--BOOK JACKET.

The Fairest Portion of the Globe

Author : Frances Hunter
Publisher : Blind Rabbit Press
ISBN 13 : 0977763609
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book The Fairest Portion of the Globe written by Frances Hunter and published by Blind Rabbit Press. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Louisiane--a land of riches beyond imagining. Whoever controls the vast domain along the Mississippi River will decide the fate of the North American continent. When young French diplomat Citizen Genet arrives in America, he's determined to wrest Louisiana away from Spain and win it back for France--even if it means global war. Caught up this astonishing scheme are George Rogers Clark, the washed-up hero of the Revolution and unlikely commander of Genet's renegade force; his beautiful sister Fanny, who risks her own sanity to save her brother's soul; General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, who never imagined he'd find the country's deadliest enemy inside his own army; and two young soldiers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who dream of claiming the Western territory in the name of the United States--only to become the pawns of those who seek to destroy it. From the frontier forts of Ohio to the elegant halls of Philadelphia, the virgin forests of Kentucky to the mansions of Natchez, Frances Hunter has written a page-turning tale of ambition, intrigue, and the birth of a legendary American friendship--in a time when America was fighting to survive.

Zebulon Pike

Author : William R. Sanford
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766043843
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Zebulon Pike written by William R. Sanford and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803, the young nation needed brave pioneers to explore this vast uncharted land. Zebulon Pike, a young frontier soldier, welcomed the challenge. Heading southwest from St. Louis, Missouri, Pike led an expedition across rolling prairies before arriving at the towering mountains. Pike became the first American to explore the southern Rocky Mountains, recording detailed maps. The highest peak in the range, which he never reached himself, now bears his name, Pikes Peak. Authors William R. Sanford and Carl R. Green explore the life of this American trailblazer.

Zebulon Pike

Author : Charles W. Maynard
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823962860
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Zebulon Pike written by Charles W. Maynard and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Expedition to the Southwest

Author : James William Abert
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259355
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Expedition to the Southwest written by James William Abert and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lt. Abert of the United States Army Topographical Engineers set out from Bent's Fort to conduct a detailed reconnaissance of the Canadian River region of the southern plains. Possessing a great eye for detail, Lt. Abert provided clear, graphic decriptions of birds, plants, animals, and the countryside, as well as details about the Comanches and the Kiowa. Lt. Abert's journal is one of the concluding records of the Anglo-American exploration of the American West begun in 1804 by Lewis and Clark.

The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike: Memoir of the author

Author : Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike: Memoir of the author written by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Across the Northern Frontier

Author : Phil Carson
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555662165
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Across the Northern Frontier written by Phil Carson and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lean, swift-moving prose, Across the Northern Frontier chronicles the compelling adventures of the Spaniards who ventured north from colonial New Mexico into the unknown, and their contacts and conflicts with Native Americans. The narrative takes the reader along on those dangerous frontier expeditions for diplomacy, trade, and war.North of colonial New Mexico, the northernmost province of New Spain, loomed the region's highest mountains, seemingly limitless plains, moving black hills of buffalo, and a bewildering maze of mesas and canyons held by disparate and often hostile native peoples. Few journeys across the frontier were routine, for they included unpredictable encounters, with natives and exposure to the hazards of the wild. Water, and its scarcity, influenced every decision. Expedition leaders routinely kept journals of their often momentous travels, and those that survive provide rich detail on the new lands and strange peoples.Spanish explorers exerted a profound influence on the subsequent history of the present-day states of New Mexico and Colorado -- a legacy not fully documented until now -- as well as Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and Utah. Colorado's people, their cultural practices, place names, and even occasional artifacts all attest to this early Spanish influence.

Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 ...

Author : Edwin James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 ... written by Edwin James and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploration of North America Coloring Book

Author : Peter F. Copeland
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486271234
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Exploration of North America Coloring Book written by Peter F. Copeland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-05-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: realistic illustrations depict Vikings in Vinland, Columbus's ship Niña, Ponce de León in Florida, others. Captions.

William Dunbar

Author : Arthur H. DeRosierJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813157676
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book William Dunbar written by Arthur H. DeRosierJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish-born William Dunbar (1750–1810) is recognized by Mississippi and Southwest historians as one of the most successful planters, agricultural innovators, explorers, and scientists to emerge from the Mississippi Territory. Despite his successes, however, history books abridge his contributions to America's early national years to a few passing sentences or footnotes. William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest rectifies past neglect, paying tribute to a man whose life was driven by the need to know and the willingness to suffer in pursuit of knowledge. From the beginning, research, contemplation, and scholarship formed the template by which Dunbar would structure his life. His mother's insistence on education motivated him throughout his youth, and in 1771, he sailed to America, prepared to seize any and all opportunities. Settling in the Mississippi territory, Dunbar embarked on the endeavors that would soon gain him renown. He surveyed the boundary between Spanish West Florida and the United States and contributed heavily to the rise of cotton culture through his inventions and innovations in agricultural technology. In 1804, at the same time that Lewis and Clark were making their way up the Missouri River, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Dunbar—now a fellow member of the prestigious American Philosophical Society—to lead a similar exploration of the southern Louisiana Purchase territory. The 103-day expedition captured the imagination of Americans looking to move westward and yielded the first information about the geographical, geological, and meteorological characteristics of the old Southwest. Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. traces Dunbar's life from his ambition as a youth to his development into a man recognized by his contemporaries as a leader in many scientific fields. Drawing upon the private journal of Dunbar's granddaughter Virginia Dunbar McQueen and neglected historical annals, William Dunbar examines Dunbar's public and private life, the scope of his interests, and the lasting contributions he left to a country and people he loved.

Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake

Author : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Publisher : New-York : Harper & Bros.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and published by New-York : Harper & Bros.. This book was released on 1834 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled an expeditionary party of thirty, including Ozawindib (an Ojibway guide and interpreter), an army officer, a surgeon, a geologist, and interpreter, and a missionary. They set out with instructions from Secretary of War Lewis Cass to effect a permanent peace among the region's Native Americans, persuade them to be vaccinated against smallpox, acquire demographic and scientific information, and establish definitively the origin of the Mississippi. Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi contains anecdotes and observations about the beliefs, customs, and history of the Chippewa [Ojibway] as well as the Sioux [Dakota], the Fox [Mesquakie], the Sauk, the Menominee, the Mandans, and various other Native American groups. The narrative proceeds chronologically along the route the expedition followed, with detailed descriptions of geographical features. This volume also includes a short account of a trip along the St. Croix and Burntwood (Brule) River, and has an appendix containing statistical and linguistic data, a list of shells collected by Schoolcraft in the West and Northwestern territories, official reports, a speech by six Chippewa chiefs about the war delivered at Michilimackinac in July 1833, and a discussion of the Upper Mississippi's lead mining country.