Citizen explorer : the life of Zebulon Pike / Jared Orsi.

By: Orsi, Jared, 1970-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraitsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199314546Subject(s): Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 | Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography | West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration | West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848 | United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Citizen explorer : the life of Zebulon Pike.DDC classification: 973.4/8092 | B LOC classification: F592.P653 | O77 2014Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : In the bosom of a grateful country -- The happiness of a free and independent people : a family and a nation seek liberty, 1635-1794 -- Be always ready to die for your country : the bargain of independence, 1794-1805 -- A barrier to their trade : establishing Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1805-1806 -- Young warriors of the great American father : crossing the Plains, July-November 1806 -- Frozen lads : into the Rockies, November 1806-February 1807 -- A comfortable captivity : learning nationalism abroad in New Spain, February-July 1807 -- Citizen soldier : Pike's and the nation, 1807-1813 -- Epilogue : from frozen lads to purple mountain majesties : Pike's West and American nationalism, 1813-1893.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : In the bosom of a grateful country -- The happiness of a free and independent people : a family and a nation seek liberty, 1635-1794 -- Be always ready to die for your country : the bargain of independence, 1794-1805 -- A barrier to their trade : establishing Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1805-1806 -- Young warriors of the great American father : crossing the Plains, July-November 1806 -- Frozen lads : into the Rockies, November 1806-February 1807 -- A comfortable captivity : learning nationalism abroad in New Spain, February-July 1807 -- Citizen soldier : Pike's and the nation, 1807-1813 -- Epilogue : from frozen lads to purple mountain majesties : Pike's West and American nationalism, 1813-1893.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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