Zebulon Pike

That is a bankrupt, dysfunctional party.

So for everyone that is, that loves this state, that still lives here, that you haven't packed up to your home and left yet, that you believe that it is worth saving a state that Zebulon Pike, when he discovered the Pikes Peak, looked at it and thought, "This is America." When you realize that America the Beautiful was written because when she looked ...

Well, I can't remember her name.

When she looked at those purple mountains majesties, she recognized that this is America, that this is the United States.

Mm-hmm.

I wanna say he hopped on a historic route that Zebulon Pike had traveled.

Mm.

Which is not a route that many people travel-

A couple of years later, Nathan Boone and a different buddy returned, and this time trapped and killed an astonishing 1,000 beavers.

Other accounts from the early 1800s reflect both the unbelievable numbers of wildlife and the greed with which they were harvested.

On an 1806 expedition up the Osage River in the northern Ozarks of Missouri, Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pikesmen killed 32 deer in one week.

Young John Shaw and two friends conducted a year-and-a-half long hunt in southwestern Missouri and northern Arkansas.

When they left the Boston Mountains in the spring of 1811, they packed out some 50 beaver pelts and 50 otter hides along with 300 bear skins and 800 gallons of bear oil.

No, no, we, we can still call it Pikes Peak Pikes Peak.

Zebulon Pike.

Although [laughs] if you knew a lot about Zebulon Pike, they'd be wanting to change that name too.

So you wanna make a road trip? Dragon, would you make that road trip with me?

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and sent Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike of the army to explore the country, expel British traders who might be violating the laws of the United States, and to make treaties with the Indians.

On the 21st of September, 1805, he encamped on what is now known as Pike Island, at the junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota, then St. Peter's River.

Two days later he obtained by treaty with the Dakota nation a tract of land for a military reservation, with the following boundaries, extending from below the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Peter's up the Mississippi to include the falls of St. Anthony, extending nine miles on each side of the river.

And I'm tired of this guy showing up all the time.

Zebulon Pike.

met with a group of medawankton dakota led by his red nation also called little crow grandfather of the warrior of 1862 and when yanka nazin he sees standing up pike left the meeting with what he saw as their permission to take a hundred thousand acres of their land The agreement, however, was an informal one, not an official treaty, and was never proclaimed by a U.S. president.

On this day, September 23rd, in 1857, and I remember this from last year it happened on this day, in a homemade balloon, William Marcoux lifted off from St. Paul and landed near Cannon Falls in Minnesota's first balloon ascension.

It was on this day in 1805.

Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike, reaching the mouth of the Minnesota Wakpa, Minnesota River, stopped at... someplace called Pike Island.

They had to name it Pike Island.

Sure.

Now, another young army officer was sent west.

His name was Zebulon Pike.

Pike's orders were to explore the Mississippi and its tributaries, gather intelligence, and strengthen American influence amongst the indigenous peoples of the newly acquired territory.

But there was another purpose.