Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Montgomery Pikewas an American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was renamed. As a U.S. Army officer he led two expeditions, first to reconnoiter the upper reaches of the Mississippi River in 1805-06 and then in 1806-07 to explore the Southwest to the fringes of the northern Spanish-colonial settlements. Pike's expeditions coincided with other Jeffersonian expeditions including the Lewis and Clark Expeditionand the Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis expedition. The second Pike Expedition crossed the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth5 January 1779
CityLamberton, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
He was a man, he always performed his promises.
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.