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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic. In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer,...
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Pub. Date
[1968]
Description
Zebulon Pike, at the time of Lewis and Clark, led his own expeditions into the hostile territory of the unexplored west. He was a man of great courage but his countrymen suspected that he had conspired with Aaron Burr and General James Wilkinson to hand western land over to the Spanish government of Mexico. He failed to achieve the honor and recognition he craved.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Pike (1779-1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best know 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 by providing a nuanced assessment of Pike and his actions within...