View of tablelands at foot of Rocky Mountains


View of the insulated table lands at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Zebulon Pike, army officer and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was named, led two expeditions: in 1806 to the headwaters of the Mississippi, and in 1807 to the west.


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