Eighty years ago, two men arrived at the pay gate of the highway that winds up Pikes Peak. The mountain, as you probably know, is named for explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who saw the peak that ...

ALTO, Texas (KLTV) - Did you know the namesake of Pike’s Peak once came through East Texas? It’s the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History. In 1807, Lt. Zebulon (Zeb-you-lawn) Pike led an ...

There is a mountain of some significance a bit west of town — you have probably heard of Pikes Peak by now. It is named, of course, after Zebulon Montgomery Pike. However, besides a few history buffs, ...

Stretching from Denver to Mexico City, through Frisco, Salida, Alamosa and parts in between, this week’s Hey, Spike! provides historical insights from 211 years ago to just the other day. First stop ...

Two hundred years ago this week, the intrepid explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike moved into a new phase of his expedition to Southern Colorado, setting out for Santa Fe in the company of 100 Spanish ...

The Pike Stockade is located 15 miles southeast of Alamosa near the intersection of County Roads Y and 24. The closest town is Sanford. The reach the stockade, travel south on 24 then follow the road ...

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 242. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. . $24.95. ISBN: 080614243X Jefferson’s Other Expeditions to ...

COLORADO SPRINGS – My first sight of Colorado’s Pikes Peak came about 20 years ago when hunting deer near Limon, population 1,880, roughly 73 miles east across the prairie. Pikes Peak stands in such ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/westhistquar.42.1.0055 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/westhistquar.42.1.0055 Copy URL Abstract Growing up after the American Revolution ...