Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Personal Information
Description
An American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was renamed (Wikipedia).
Books
Account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi
Material discovered in Mexico in 1927 is used to enhance Pike's book originally published in 1810.
The Great West
Exploratory travels through the western territories of North America
The report of the first United States expedition to the Southwest, here in the handsome first British edition. One of the most important American travel books, including accounts of Pike's explorations on the Mississippi, Red, and Arkansas rivers and his visit to the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. He also visited northern Texas, and Streeter considers his account excellent. The maps present in this edition are the "Map of the Interior Part of Louisiana" and a reduced version of the map of the Mississippi. The Pike expedition stands with the narratives of Lewis and Clark, and Long, as the most important of the early books on western exploration.