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Identifier: historyofuniteds02bour (find matches)
Title: A history of the United States
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bourne, Henry Eldridge, 1862- Benton, Elbert Jay, 1871-1946, joint author
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D.C. Heath and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ulon Pike was sentto explore other portions of Louisiana Territory. In 1805,with a few companions, he followed the Mississippi Rivernearly to its source. In 1806 he undertook the harder taskof visiting the Indians and exploring the country along theeastern border of the Rocky Mountains. He followed theMissouri and then the Osage River, and zigzagged acrossthe plains of Kansas, touching once the boundary of what isnow Nebraska and at another time that of Oklahoma. Pikethought that the Arkansas River valley must be a paradisefor the wandering savages because of the abundance of game— buffalo, elk, and deer. Part of the way he was close to the path that Coronadohad taken from New Mexico into central Kansas 265 yearsearlier. He met few Indians. In exploring the mountainfront, looking for a pass, Pike found and described the RoyalGorge of the Arkansas River and the beautiful mountainpeak which bears his name. The expedition suffered in-tensely when winter came on. At one time the members
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\ RESULTS OF WESTERN EXPLORATION 273 were four days without food, tramping knee-deep throughsnow, and loaded down with some seventy pounds of baggageapiece. The famished men finally found a herd of buffaloes.Pike wandered around in the mountains of southern Colo-rado until he crossed the frontier into the territory of Spain.The Spanish authorities, taking him to be a spy, seized himand carried him to Santa Fe in New Mexico. He was later

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