Zebulon Pike Expedition Map

The younger pike was commissioned first lieutenant in 1799. Zebulon pike's southwestern expedition wayside marker. In 1806, pike was charged with mapping out the southwestern sweep of the big plot of land (louisiana) that we’d just bought.

Under the orders of the war department, lieutenant zebulon montgomery pike, with a force consisting of two lieutenants, a surgeon, a sergeant, two corporals, 16 privates, and an interpreter, set out in two boats from belle fontaine, near st. 14, 1807 map, top center: Pike arranged a treaty with the sioux and mapped much of the region.

Young captain pike (27 years old at the time) had.

General zebulon montgomery pike was a loyal and steadfast american growing up in the revolutionary war american patriotic mentality. Among pike’s missions during the first expedition were to: From the careful logbooks of early explorers like lewis & clark and zebulon pike, the mapmakers of washington were kept busy creating new images of the mostly unknown rocky mountains.this original map was published in 1807. While he was serving on the western frontier in st.