USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lieutenant Zebulon Pike led two expeditions, one in 1805 and 1806 to search for the headwaters of the Mississippi River and another in 1806 and 1807 to determine the source of the Arkansas and Red Rivers in the southern reaches of the Louisiana Purchase .

Detailed explanation-2: -Zebulon Pike, the U.S. Army officer who in 1805 led an exploring party in search of the source of the Mississippi River, sets off with a new expedition to explore the American Southwest. Pike was instructed to seek out headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers and to investigate Spanish settlements in New Mexico.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1805 Pike, then an army lieutenant, led a 20-man exploring party to the headwaters of the Mississippi River with instructions to discover the river’s source, negotiate peace treaties with Indian tribes, and assert the legal claim of the United States to the area.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pike left Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri on July 15 with a detachment of 20 soldiers and 50 Osage hostages, freed for return to their people. The expedition followed the Missouri River and the Osage River to the Osage Nation village at the present-day border of Kansas and Missouri.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1806, Pike and a party of soldiers were sent to explore the unknown far west 1. CHNC in order to find where the Arkansas River began. In November of that year, Pike spotted what he called “a small blue cloud, ” which turned out to be what would later be named Pike’s Peak.