LEADER 04757nam 2200613 450 001 9910790609003321 005 20230803220350.0 010 $a0-19-931455-1 010 $a0-19-067414-8 010 $a0-19-931454-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000001139929 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25858247 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001040251 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12390171 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040251 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10992288 035 $a(PQKB)11211861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1538393 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1538393 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10792462 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL539443 035 $a(OCoLC)862077026 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001139929 100 $a20121220h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCitizen explorer $ethe life of Zebulon Pike /$fJared Orsi 210 1$aOxford ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (384 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-976872-2 311 $a1-306-08192-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : In the bosom of a grateful country -- The happiness of a free and independent people : a family and a nation seek liberty, 1635-1794 -- Be always ready to die for your country : the bargain of independence, 1794-1805 -- A barrier to their trade : establishing Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1805-1806 -- Young warriors of the great American father : crossing the Plains, July-November 1806 -- Frozen lads : into the Rockies, November 1806-February 1807 -- A comfortable captivity : learning nationalism abroad in New Spain, February-July 1807 -- Citizen soldier : Pike's and the nation, 1807-1813 -- Epilogue : from frozen lads to purple mountain majesties : Pike's West and American nationalism, 1813-1893. 330 8 $aLife and times biography of a key explorer of the US West.$bToday Zebulon Pike's name is immortalized at Pikes Peak, the second most visited mountain in the world after Japan's Mount Fuji. It overlooks the town of Colorado Springs, where historian Jared Orsi teaches. Orsi was inspired to take up this biography not just by geography but also because there has been no modern interpretation of the life of this key explorer in American history. His life sheds considerable life on the early national period and on the American frontier.Born during the Revolution Zebulon, Pike came of age with the nation. Trained as a soldier and stationed at various frontier posts, Pike believed he had struck a bargain with his country: by sacrificing himself physically for the nation, he would be rewarded with the independence to pursue liberty, prosperity, and refinement. He made a name for himself in the early 1800s, when he was chosen to command an expedition to find the source of the Mississippi River and purchase lands from Indians forfuture army posts. He proved himself as an explorer who could conduct missions into the frontier and penetrate Spanish territory, including Santa Fe, the Rocky Mountains, and Louisiana. Along the way he was suspected of mischievous plots against the Spanish and for a time taken captive. (Thisparticularly calls attention to the loose attachment Americans had to the new nation the further West one went.) Nonetheless, he advanced within the army and served during the War of 1812, dying during an expedition he led against York (now Toronto).Orsi aims to interpret the life of Pike through several lenses. He casts him as a nationalist, whose life reflects the tensions of the young republic. Through his figure, he is able to convey the growing interest of Americans in the West, which Pike popularized in his travel narratives. He also sees Pike in environmental terms, analyzing his physical encounters with frontier landscapes. This biography, which would be the only one in print on Pike, should have a similar readership as DonaldWorster's A River Running West and books on the Lewis and Clark expedition, as well as books on the interaction between Americans and Native peoples on the frontier. 606 $aExplorers$zWest (U.S.)$vBiography 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xDiscovery and exploration 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$yTo 1848 607 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aExplorers 676 $a973.4/8092 676 $aB 700 $aOrsi$b Jared$f1970-$01494219 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790609003321 996 $aCitizen explorer$93717623 997 $aUNINA