Jan. 2—Back in 1805, Zebulon Montgomery Pike set forth with an exploring party to discover the headwaters of the Mississippi River. It was an expedition that spanned 2,000 miles, carrying Pike and his ...

Lewis and Clark are so yesterday. This is Zebulon Pike’s year. In 1806, Pike led an expedition exploring the Southwest, an adventure that took him through what is now Colorado Springs to the base of ...

Zebulon Pike didn’t apply his own name to the 14,115-foot-high mountain. He called it “the Great Peak” or “the blue mountain” in official reports of his expedition to the Southwest. The big peak ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Matt Mayberry talked about Zebulon Pike and how the peak that bears his name became a symbol for exploration. Matt Mayberry talked about Zebulon Pike ...

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A second-rate episode in the third-rate War of 1812 was General Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s expedition with 2,500 men in April 1813, across Lake Ontario against York (now Toronto), a village important ...