Stephen Long & Zebulon Pike have peaks named for them in this state, an area they said was uninhabitable
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Stephen H. Long - NebraskaStudies.Org  One of the members of this group was Stephen H. Long. ... Instead of exploring the Missouri, President James Madison decided to have Long lead ... Zebulon Pike's Route ... Long named the Rocky Mountains and his peak as he came across them. ... they finally met the other part of the expedition at Belle Point in Oklahoma.
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After Lewis & Clark - Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America ...  In the summer of 1805, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike extended his orders to include ... The area explored by Freeman, in present-day Louisiana, Arkansas, ... After exploring the region adjacent to the peak that bears his name in Colorado, Pike traced .... Major Stephen Long led the first western exploration expedition to utilize a...
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Article Title: Stephen Long and Scientific Exploration on the Plains  May 7, 2015 ... Names: Stephen Long, John C Calhoun, John Torrey ... Edward Jessup, William Baldwin, Edwin James, Thomas Say, ... Expedition, which took a year longer to get started. ... Rockies, Zebulon Pike had at least crossed the southern plains, while .... and death awaited them, and that they should turn back.
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Pike expedition - Wikipedia  The Pike Expedition (July 15, 1806  July 1, 1807) was a military party sent out by President ... The expedition documented the United States' discovery of Pikes Peak. ... commander of the Western Department, ordered Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, ... Stephen Long led an expedition to the area in 1820, he labeled the area on...
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Explorers in Kansas - Kansas Historical Society  The Read Kansas project was created by the Kansas State Historical Society ... will read cards about the explorers (Coronado, Lewis and Clark, Pike, and Long), ... Clark, Zebulon Pike, Stephen Long.) ... Have the explorer write his explorer name in pencil on ... the answers as they are added to the projected worksheet.
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Quiz on US Geography  TriviaBug  Clue: North Carolina site known as known as Graveyard of the Atlantic. ... Clue: Guernsey is one of Britain's islands called these; Santa Catalina is one of California's. .... Clue: This mountain range extends from Lassen Peak in California to the...
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Pikes Peak | Pikes Peak Cog Railway | Colorado Springs  In 1820, Edwin James, a botanist who climbed many peaks in Colorado, made it to ... Most likely, they scaled Pikes Peak to place eagle traps on its summit, ... The trail was later extended to reach all the way back to Manitou Springs. Strong hikers today can make the 13-mile trip along the beautiful, but very steep, Barr Trail.
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Zebulon Pike: Explorer | Colorado Virtual Library  Jul 13, 2015 ... Zebulon Montgomery Pike was one of the first white men to explore the ... Yet Pike wanted to explore the mountain he had seen, so he set out...
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Zebulon Pike: Explorer | Colorado Virtual Library  Jul 13, 2015 ... Where: Born in New Jersey, explored Pikes Peak and Arkansas River ... which turned out to be what would later be named Pike's Peak. ... Engraving of the Death of General Pike at the Battle of York (now Toronto) in 1813. ... Zebulon Pike died just six years after the expedition, a casualty of the War of 1812.
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Huge snowfall on Californian mountain resort set to break 60-year ...  Mar 30, 2011 ... Buried: Soda Springs, California, is a whiteout after 61ft of snow fell ... including Squaw Valley USA near the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Heavenly Mountain Resort on the lake's south side and Mammoth Mountain, the sprawling Eastern ... while Mammoth, with a peak elevation exceeding 11,000 feet, might...
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GEO ExPro - Triassic Park - Arizona's Petrified Forest.  The park's badlands offer striking vistas and a peek back at life in the Late Triassic. ... But what may be even more remarkable than the beautiful petrified trees is the ... (Source: Arizona Geological Survey) The Triassic Period in Earth's long .... It was chosen as the site for the first core drilling into the Late Triassic strata, part of...
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Pikes Peak - Wikipedia  Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The ultra-prominent 14,115-foot (4,302.31 m) fourteener is located in Pike ... Pikes Peak is one of Colorado's 53 fourteeners, mountains that rise more than 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) above sea level. The mountain rises...
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Dubious, curious Arizona place names - AZCentral.com  Aug 17, 2014 ... About 200 miles south of there, hikers can walk a trail in the ... changing the name of Phoenix's Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak. ... Mount Baldy can be seen on the horizon. ... Throughout Arizona, there are at least 15 geographic features ... The unincorporated community near Prescott got its name after a...
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DenaliMount McKinley naming dispute - Wikipedia  The name of the highest mountain in North America became a subject of dispute in 1975, when ... The first English name applied to the peak was Densmore's Mountain or ..... 20th century in politics  21st century in politics  Denali  Geographical naming disputes  Legal history of Alaska  Native American history of Alaska...
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Great American Desert - Digital History  ... in 1820, Major Stephen H. Long called the region "the Great American Desert. ... uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence. ... later, the "Great American Desert" received a new name, the Great Plains.
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Pike expedition - Wikipedia  The Pike Expedition (July 15, 1806  July 1, 1807) was a military party sent out by President ... The expedition documented the United States' discovery of Pikes Peak. ... in Spanish territory in present-day Southern Colorado, where the Americans ... When Stephen Long led an expedition to the area in 1820, he labeled the...
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Zebulon Pike: Hard-Luck Explorer by Bob Moore  On returning from his Mississippi River Expedition Pike described, in another letter, his ... Pike's second expedition, 1806-1807, was designed to accomplish several ... Spanish territory without officially involving the United States Government. ... the huge vertical walls of the Royal Gorge towering above them on both sides.
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Pikes Peak - Wikipedia  Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North ... The name was simplified to "Pikes Peak" by the United States Board on ... up as far as present-day Denver, then turned south and passed close to what ..... By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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State Nicknames - Scribd  Arizona's other nickname Copper State celebrates its fabulous (, ... until the first planters of Connecticut came together for their great work on January 14th. ... Early pioneers found bluegrass growing on Kentucky's rich limestone soil. ... Named as the Sage State and the Sagebrush State () for the wild...
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Full text of "Mountain playgrounds of the Pike National Forest"  THE Pike National Forest, stretching for 80 miles along the eastern slope of the ... Divide in Colorado, embraces one of the most popular recreation grounds in America. Within its boundaries is the greater part of the famous Pikes Peak region, visited ... On the main trail to the summit of Mount Evans, two stopping places for...
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5 High-Altitude Tips for a Great Colorado Vacation - Pikes Peak  Well, at 6,000+ feet above Sea Level, you're body is going to act a little different than it does at home. ... Colorado Springs has great water, in my opinion. It's cold...