| Description |
1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813.
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Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
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West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848.
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Orsi, Jared. Citizen explorer : the life of Zebulon Pike. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014] xii, 379 pages 9780199768721 (DLC) 2012048606 |
| ISBN |
9780199768721 (alk. paper) |
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9780199314546 (electronic bk.) |
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