Citizen explorer : the life of Zebulon Pike / Jared Orsi.
Orsi, Jared, 1970-
2014
F592.P653 O77 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Citizen explorer : the life of Zebulon Pike / Jared Orsi.
Author
Orsi, Jared, 1970-
ISBN
9780199768721 hardcover alkaline paper
0199768722 hardcover alkaline paper
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xii, 379 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Call Number
F592.P653 O77 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.4/8092 B
Summary
Born in 1779, Zebulon Pike joined the army and served in frontier posts before embarking on a series of expeditions that rivaled those by Lewis and Clark. He sought the headwaters of the Mississippi, the sources of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, which led him to Pike's Peak and capture by Spanish forces. Surveying and gathering data Pike sought to incorporate distant territories into the republic, to overlay the west with the American map; yet he became increasingly dependent on people who had no attachment to the nation he served.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-358) and index.
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Introduction : In the bosom of a grateful country
The happiness of a free and independent people : a family and a nation seek liberty, 1635-1794
Be always ready to die for your country : the bargain of independence, 1794-1805
A barrier to their trade : establishing Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1805-1806
Young warriors of the great American father : crossing the Plains, July-November 1806
Frozen lads : into the Rockies, November 1806-February 1807
A comfortable captivity : learning nationalism abroad in New Spain, February-July 1807
Citizen soldier : Pike's and the nation, 1807-1813
Epilogue : from frozen lads to purple mountain majesties : Pike's West and American nationalism, 1813-1893.

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