Matthew L. Harris is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University-Pueblo and coeditor of The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America: A History in Documents. Jay H. Buckley is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, coauthor of By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, and author of William Clark: Indian Diplomat.
"An impressive reconceptualization of Pike against the backdrop of
nineteenth-century political intrigue and burgeoning imperialistic
ambitions."--Chronicles of Oklahoma
"Editors Harris and Buckley are to be commended for a work that is
both an important assemblage of useful scholarship and a thoroughly
enjoyable read."--Oregon Historical Quarterly
"Stymied by his mountain, confused by western geography, captured
by the Spaniards, Zebulon Pike has been the odd man out in
Jeffersonian exploration history for two centuries now. This fine
anthology of new essays about Pike and his circle should go far
toward correcting our historical memory about that clarion moment
when the Southwest first beckoned and Zebulon Pike became America's
eyes."--Dan Flores, editor of Southern Counterpart to Lewis and
Clark: The Freeman and Custis Expedition of 1806
"Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the West brings
the most recent scholarship to the questions that have long
surrounded Pike's foray into the Southwest, and helps to place the
explorer firmly within the context of his more famous peers Lewis
and Clark, Dunbar and Hunter, and Freeman and Custis."--Ron Tyler,
author of Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist as Explorer
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