USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Pike was instructed to seek out headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers and to investigate Spanish settlements in New Mexico. Pike and his men left Missouri and traveled through the present-day states of Kansas and Nebraska before reaching Colorado, where he spotted the famous mountain later named in his honor.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1806–7, Captain Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) led a US Army expedition to the southwestern part of the Louisiana Purchase. The area now known as Colorado was a part of the Louisiana Purchase. Pike was one of many explorers to visit this new territory.

Detailed explanation-3: -On his second expedition, Pike was charged with exploring the regions around the Arkansas and Red rivers. After a trek across the Great Plains and through the Rocky Mountains, Pike was captured by Spanish forces after crossing into the territory of New Spain.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.