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Citizen Explorer - The Life of Zebulon Pike (Paperback)
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Citizen Explorer - The Life of Zebulon Pike (Paperback)
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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 valley before embarking on a series of astonishing
expeditions. He sought the headwaters of the Mississippi and later
the sources of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, which led him to Pike's
Peak and capture by Spanish forces. Along the way, he met Aaron
Burr and General James Wilkinson; Auguste and Pierre Couteau,
patriarchs of St. Louis's most powerful fur-trading family, who
sought to make themselves indispensible to Jefferson's
administration; as well as British fur-traders, Native Americans,
and officers of the Spanish empire, all of whom resisted the
expansion of the United States. Through Pike's life, Orsi examines
how American nationalism thinned as it stretched west, from the
Jeffersonian idealism on the Atlantic to a practical, materialist
sensibility on the frontier. Surveying and gathering data, Pike
sought to incorporate these distant territories into the republic,
to overlay the west with the American map grid; yet he became
increasingly dependent for survival on people who had no attachment
to the nation he served. He eventually died in that service, in a
victorious battle in the War of 1812. Written from an environmental
perspective, rich in cultural and political context, Citizen
Explorer is a state-of-the-art biography of a remarkable man.
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