Citizen explorer : the life of Zebulon Pike /

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Author / Creator:Orsi, Jared, 1970-
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11404346
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ISBN:9780199314546
0199314543
9781306081924
1306081920
9780199768721
0199768722
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic. In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Born in 1779, Pike joined the army and served in frontier posts in the Ohio River val.
Other form:Print version: Orsi, Jared, 1970- Citizen explorer 9780199768721