Discovered in 1806, this Colorado peak was first climbed in July 1820 by 3 members of Major Long's expedition
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Pikes Peak - Wikipedia  First ascent, 1820  Edwin James and party. Easiest route  Barr Trail  Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway  Pikes Peak Highway. Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North ... The first Europeans to discover Pikes Peak were the Spanish in the 1700s. The first American...
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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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Tackling Colorado's 14,000-Footers - NYTimes.com  May 24, 1992 ... Three of them -- Pikes Peak, Longs Peak and Mount Bierstadt -- are ... Zebulon Pike of the Army in 1806; after spending two and a half days ... Stephen Long saw the mountain while leading an expedition in ... in July 1820, the first documented ascent of one of Colorado's ..... Log in to discover more articles
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Pikes Peak | mountain, Colorado, United States | Britannica.com  Peak in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in El Paso county, Colorado, U.S., ... An average snowfall of about 9.5 feet (3 metres) on the northern slope and 14 feet ... 1806 by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, who abandoned his attempt to climb it ... Long's expedition on July 1415, 1820; this was the first recorded ascent of a...
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Treasure Tales: Colorado: A General History of Colorado  The first Europeans to penetrate the area now known as Colorado were ... On November 27, Pike (with 3 companions) attempted to climb Pikes Peak but after 3 ... In the summer of 1820, an expedition commanded by Major Stephen H Long and ... The first placer gold discovery in South Park was along Tarryall Creek in July,...
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Historic Resources Survey Plan City of Brighton, Colorado  Nov 20, 2001 ... the third largest in the Rocky Mountain area. .... News of gold in Pikes Peak Country which was Colorado's name in 1858, broke in the East.
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The Costs of Altitude  Colorado Central Magazine  Dec 1, 2010 ... And 1820 marked the first recorded climb of a 14,000-foot peak in America. ... few of Colorado's 54 Fourteeners would suffer the traffic they bear today. ... Dr. Edwin James, led a three-man party to the summit of the high peak .... But as it turned out, we found another insurer, and it costs less than the old...
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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 mountain is named in honor of American explorer Zebulon Pike who ... Pikes Peak is one of Colorado's 53 fourteeners, mountains that rise more .... He stated that during this year he discovered the Earth' stationary waves.
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Stephen H. Long - NebraskaStudies.Org  Stephen H. Long dubbed the Great Plains the "Great American Desert". ... Long's group built their winter quarters nearby and called it "Engineer Cantonment." ... On June 6, 1820, Long and 19 men traveled up the north bank of the Platte and met ... and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture.
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The Colorado Gold Rush - Western Mining History  The Colorado Gold Rush was the boom in the prospecting and mining of gold in present-day Colorado in the United States that began in 1859 (when the ... The gold rush, which followed approximately a decade after the California Gold ... to the area, setting off with his two brothers and six companions in February 1858.
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Jim Bridger | American frontiersman | Britannica.com  American fur trader, frontiersman, scout, the mountain man par excellence. ... the ColoradoNew Mexico border, and Idaho and Utah, constantly exploring new ... in Utah from 1825 to 1828, indicating the early importance of the area to the fur trade. ... trading posts included Jim Bridger, who first visited the Great Salt Lake in...
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The adventures of Zebulon M. Pike  Colorado Central Magazine  Mar 1, 1997 ... History knows this as the Pike Expedition, named for its commander, Capt. Zebulon Mont gomery Pike, who left his name on 14,110-foot Pike's Peak, which, ... by all as part of Louisiana) and the Rio Grande (definitely Spanish) was in ..... He finally decided to built a small fort at Caon City, caching most of...
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10 Things You Didn't Know About the Grand Teton - Climbing ...  Jun 15, 2012 ... It's difficult to get an accurate count of the number of climbers who ... a few things you may not know about Wyoming's most famous peak.1. ... They called the mountains Les Trois Tetons, or The Three Breasts. ... Despite the attention given to the controversy, the summit was not visited again for 25 years.4.
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FRMONT, John C. (1813-1890). Report of the Exploring Expedition ...  Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and Northern California in the years 1843-44. Washington, D. C.:...
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jeopardy/213_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  U.S. GEOGRAPHY | Part of this 3,000-mile long mountain system covers the middle third of Colorado | the Rocky Mountains. right: Paul. Wrong: Value: $100.
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Zebulon Pike's Expedition To The Southwest 1806-1807  santafetrailresearch.com -- Zebulon Pike's Expedition To The Southwest 1806-1807. ... Pike's companions traveling up the Missouri River in the summer of 1806 ... crossing within several days into present day Kansas, entering the state near .... by the towering walls of the Royal Gorge through which the Arkansas flowed.
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Pike expedition - Wikipedia  The Pike Expedition (July 15, 1806  July 1, 1807) was a military party sent out by President ... After splitting up his men, Pike led the larger contingent to find the ... several errors and ended up in Spanish territory in present-day Southern Colorado, ... Pike tried to climb the peak, hoping to get a view of the surrounding area to...
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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. ... One group was led by Lieutenant James Biddle Wilkinson, son of the General ... Pike tried to climb the peak, hoping to get a view of the surrounding area to...
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The New Empire of the Rockies: A History of Northeast Colorado ...  Nov 20, 2008 ... By the end of summer, 1869, land was found in Colorado and ... The Union Colony effort was the first major irrigation undertaking in northeastern Colorado. ... It was founded in Illinois in late 1870 with the purpose of purchasing land ... as a tool for land speculation and little effort was made to help settlers.
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Amundsen's South Pole expedition - Wikipedia  The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four others arrived at the pole on 14 December 1911, five weeks ..... "If the expedition was to be saved ... there was nothing left for me but to try and ...... 78, and Huntford (The Last Place on Earth) 1985, p. 299...
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Sam, Author at Highpointing the USAHighpointing the USA  In 2013 I climbed Guadalupe Peak, my first highpoint, and I have been ... all of the state highpoints, as well as the states that we have already completed. ... The Guadalupe Mountains rise over 8,000 feet stretching from southern New Mexico into Texas. ... It also tops off the number one place of Colorado's famous 14'ers. 6...