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Lost with Lieutenant Pike: How from the Pawnee Village the boy named Scar Head marched with the young American Chief clear into the Snowy Mountains; how in the dead of winter they searched for the Lost River and thought that they had found it; and how the Spanish Soldiery came upon them and took them down to Santa Fé of New Mexico, where another surprise awaited themSabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

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Lost with Lieutenant Pike: How from the Pawnee Village the boy named Scar Head marched with the young American Chief clear into the Snowy Mountains; how in the dead of winter they searched for the Lost River and thought that they had found it; and how the Spanish Soldiery came upon them and took them down to Santa Fé of New Mexico, where another surprise awaited them

Name: Lost with Lieutenant Pike: How from the Pawnee Village the boy named Scar Head marched with the young American Chief clear into the Snowy Mountains; how in the dead of winter they searched for the Lost River and thought that they had found it; and how the Spanish Soldiery came upon them and took them down to Santa Fé of New Mexico, where another surprise awaited them
Author: Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 -- Juvenile fiction

Again he leaves his family, and embarks, July 15, 1806, with First
Lieutenant James B. Wilkinson, First Infantry, the son of General
Wilkinson; Civilian Surgeon John H. Robinson, an interpreter, and
eighteen enlisted men, in two boats. The majority of the enlisted men
had been with him up the Mississippi.

He visits the Osages, who welcome the return of their relatives, and
agree to peace with the Kansas. The Pawnees try to stop him, by order
of the Spanish, but he defies them. He fails to find the Comanches. His
march by horse and foot takes him along the Arkansas River clear to the
Rocky Mountains, where he sights the great Pike’s Peak (later named
for him) of Colorado, and attempts to climb it. Searching for the head
of the Red River, that he may follow down to the military posts of the
United States frontier, he loses his way completely. In the bitter cold
and deep snows of a terrible winter he crosses the front range of the
Rockies, and builds a stockade upon a stream of the Upper Rio Grande
River in the lower end of the San Luis Valley, southern Colorado.

Here in mid-winter Spanish soldiers from Santa Fé come upon him and
inform him that he is in Spanish territory. They take him down to
Santa Fé, the capital of the Province of New Mexico. He is sent on
down to the military headquarters at Chihuahua, Mexico. From there
he is sent to the United States, and arrives at the American post of
Natchitoches, western Louisiana, on July 1, 1807, after travels of a
year.

As the first Government explorer through far southwestern Louisiana
Territory he brings back much valuable information upon the country and
Indians, and upon the people, military forces and customs of Mexico.
Captains Lewis and Clark have brought back also their information upon
the far Northwest.

Meanwhile, as a reward for his services, he had been promoted to
captain, August 12, 1806.

Commissioned major, in the Sixth U. S. Infantry, May, 1808.

Commissioned lieutenant-colonel, Fourth U. S. Infantry, December, 1809.

Commissioned colonel, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, July, 1812.

Appointed brigadier-general, adjutant-general and inspector-general, U.
S. A., March, 1813.

Killed in action, April 27, 1813, while commanding the assault by the
American troops upon York, at Toronto, Canada. The retreating British
garrison blew up a powder magazine, and a fragment of rock crushed his
back. He died wrapped in the Flag, amidst victory, at the age of only
thirty-four.


THE PIKE PARTIES

UP THE MISSISSIPPI (1805–1806)

  First Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike, Commanding

  Pierre Rousseau, Interpreter

  Sergeant Henry Kennerman (reduced to the ranks)

  Corporals
      Samuel Bradley
      William E. Meek

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