Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West
By: edited by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780806142432
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Explorers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Zebulon Montgomery Pike in American memory / Matthew L. Harris; title: Pike as a forgotten and misunderstood explorer / Jay H. Buckley; title: Pike and empire / James P. Ronda; title: Pike and American science / John Logan Allen; title: Jeffersonian explorers in the Trans-Mississippi West: Zebulon Pike in perspective / Jay H. Buckley; title: An empire and ecology of liberty / Jared Orsi; title: Enemies and friends: Pike and Melgares in the competition for the Great Plains / Leo E. Oliva; title: James Wilkinson: Pike's mentor and Jefferson's capricious point man in the West / William E. Foley.