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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
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, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Born in 1779, Pike joined the army and served in frontier posts in the Ohio River val |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813.
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Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 fast |
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Pike, Zebulon Montgomery 1779-1813 gnd |
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Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Discoveries in geography
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Explorers
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Territorial expansion
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West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration
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West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146152
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century
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United States
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West United States
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History
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199314546 |
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0199314543 |
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9781306081924 |
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1306081920 |
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