Who was Zebulon Montgomery Pike?
Q: Who was Zebulon Montgomery Pike?
A: Zebulon Montgomery Pike was an American brigadier general and explorer.
Q: What is named after him?
A: Pikes Peak in Colorado is named after him.
Q: What did President Thomas Jefferson ask him to do?
A: President Thomas Jefferson asked Pike to lead two journeys through the new Louisiana Purchase territory. The first was in 1805-06 to explore the upper northern parts of the Mississippi River, and the second journey was in 1806-07 to explore the Southwest to the edges of the northern Spanish-colonial settlements of New Mexico and Texas.
Q: What other journeys happened while Thomas Jefferson was president?
A: Other journeys that happened while Thomas Jefferson was president included the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) and the Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis expedition up the Red River (1806).
Q: Where did Pike's second journey take him?
A: Pike's second journey crossed the Rocky Mountains into what is now southern Colorado.
Q: How were he and his men treated by Spanish authorities?
A: He and his men were captured by Spanish colonial authorities near Santa Fe, questioned, then led through Texas before being released near American territory in Louisiana.
Q: What book did he write about his journeys?
A:In 1810, Pike wrote a book about his journeys called "The Account of Expeditions to The Sources Of The Mississippi". It became so popular that it was translated into Dutch, French, and German languages for publication in Europe.
