On June 24, 1806, General James Wilkinson, commander of the Western Department, ordered Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, then age 27, to lead an expedition to the western and southern areas of the Louisiana Purchase to map the terrain, contact the Native American peoples, and to find the headwaters of the Red River. [2]

Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike and his men set out from St. Louis on July 15, 1806, for the purpose of exploring what is now the American Southwest.

Beginning July 15, 1806, Pike led what became known as the "Pike Expedition". In early November 1806, Pike and his team sighted and tried to climb to the summit of the peak later named after him . They made it as far as Mt. Rosa, located southeast of Pikes Peak, before giving up the ascent in waist-deep snow.

2010年7月21日 · Zebulon Pike, the U.S. Army officer who in 1805 led an exploring party in search of the source of the Mississippi River, sets off with a new expedition to explore the American Southwest. Pike...

Pike's expedition set out westward in April 1806, to the Arkansas River in modern central Colorado. Apparently, word of Pike's "secret" mission reached the Spanish headquarters for the northern provinces of New Spain in Chihuahua, Mexico. A Spanish military force was dispatched to intercept Pike.

2014年6月16日 · Pike’s ambitious 1806 journey marked the first official U.S. exploration of the southern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. Today, this expedition is perhaps remembered more for its seeming — though never fully illuminated — ties to the so-called Burr Conspiracy and the duplicitous General James Wilkinson.

2019年6月3日 · Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779 –1813) was an American soldier and explorer. As a United States Army captain in 1806–1807 he led an expedition to explore and document the southern portion of the Louisiana territory and to find the headwaters of the Red River, during which he recorded the discovery of what later was called Pikes Peak.

In late October 1806, Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) led an expedition that professed its main goal as mapping the Arkansas and Red Rivers. In reality Pike's explorations may have been designed to gauge the military strength of a potential enemy, Spain, and possibly even provoke an international incident which would lead to war.

The history of Zebulon Pike's "remarkable" 1806 expedition existed then, as it does now, in the large shadow of the Corps of Discovery-the storied expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark that ended soon after Pike commenced his journey through the southern reaches of the Louisiana Purchase territory.

Pike's western explorations. The Events Two military expeditions commissioned to explore and locate the sources of the Mississippi and the Arkansas Rivers, evaluate the natural resources of the newly acquired Louisiana Territory for the United States, and report on the current state of settlement and the fur trade. Dates August 9, 1805-April 30, 1806; July 15, 1806-July 1, 1807