Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley
Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley
Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike was a bold young adventurer, who, when twenty-seven years of age, undertook to explore the country between…
Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley: Pawnee
Their first destination was the Pawnee villages far away on the Platte River, where a tribe of Indians lived whose friendship for the…
Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley: Spaniards
Pike replied, "There are few of us here, but there are many of us where I come from. The Spaniards are many here, but few at home. We bring…
Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley: Santa
At last they built a block-house for shelter, and settled down to wait. Pike sent one of his men to hunt for Santa Fé, the Spanish town…