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Zebulon Montgomery Pike was born in Lamberton, New Jersey, United States on the 5th of January 1779, son of Zebulon Pike (1751 - 1834), an officer in the American army.
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Excerpt from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Vol. 1 of 3: To Headwaters of the Mississippi River, Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7 On my return from the Mississippi voyage, preparations were making for a second, which was to be conducted by another gentleman Of the army; but General Wilkinson solicited as a favor that which he had a right to command, viz., that I would agree to take charge Of the expedition. The late dangers and hardships I had undergone, together with the idea Of again leaving my family in a strange country, distant from their connections, made me hesitate; but the ambition Of a soldier, and the spirit Of enterprise which was inherent in my breast, induced me to agree to his proposition. The great Objects in view by this expedi tion, as I conceived in addition to my instructions, were to attach the Indians to our government, and to acquire such geographical knowledge Of the southwestern boundary Of Louisiana as to enable our government to enter into a definitive arrangement for a line of demarkation between that territory and North Mexico. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Zebulon Montgomery Pike was born in Lamberton, New Jersey, United States on the 5th of January 1779, son of Zebulon Pike (1751 - 1834), an officer in the American army.
He entered his father's company as a cadet about 1794, and became an ensign (or second lieutenant) in 1799 and first lieutenant in the same year.
On the 9th cf August 1805 he started with twenty men from St Louis to explore the head-waters of the Mississippi. At Prairie du Chien he met some Chippewa chiefs and induced them to expel the whisky-traders among them and to make peace with the Sioux; at the Falls of St Anthony he bought a tract 9 m. square at the mouth of the St Croix for a fort and at Little Falls (in the middle of October) he built a stockade, where he left seven men. He reached Leech Lake ("Lake La Sang Sue"), which he called "the main source of the Mississippi, " on the 1st of February 1806, went 30 m. farther to Cass Lake ("Red Cedar") and after working against British influences among the Indians, turned back, and went down the Mississippi from Dean Creek I to St Louis, arriving on the 30th of April.
In 1806 he was ordered to restore to their homes 50 Osages, redeemed by the United States government from Potawatami, and to explore the country. He started on the 15th of July and went north along the Missouri and the Osage into the present state of Kansas and probably to the Republican river in the south of the present Nebraska, where on the 29th of September he held a grand council of the Pawnees. Then (early in October), turning nearly south, he marched to the Arkansas river, which he reached on the 14th of October, and up which (after the 28th with only 16 men) he went to the Royal Gorge (Dec. 7), having first seen the mountain called in his honour Pike's Peak on the 23rd of November and then went north-west, probably up Oil Creek from Canon City. In searching for the Red river he came to the South Platte, marched through South Park, left it by Trout Creek pass, struck over to the Arkansas, which he thought was the Red River for which he was searching, and, going south and south-west, came to the Rio Grande del Norte (about where Alamosa, Conejos county, Colorado, is now) on the 30th of January 1807. There on the 26th of February he and a small number of his men were taken prisoners by Spanish authorities, who sent him first to Santa Fe, then to Chihuahua to General Salcedo, and by a roundabout way to the American frontier, where he was released on the 1st of July 1807.
He was promoted captain (August 1806), major (May 1808), lieutenant-colonel (Dec. 1809) and colonel (July 1812).
In 1808 he tried in vain to get an appropriation from Congress for himself and his men.
He was military agent in New Orleans in 1809-1810, was deputy quartermaster-general in April-July 1812, and was in active service in the War of 1812 as adjutant and inspector-general in the campaign against York (now Toronto), Canada, and in the attack on York on the 27th of April 1813 was in immediate command of the troops in action and was killed by a piece of rock which fell on him when the British garrison in its retreat set fire to the magazine.
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Zebulon Pike married Clarissa Harlow Brown in 1801. They had one child.
