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Zebulon Pike Expedition - Part 5: Reflections on impact and the cost of exploration
The return to the settlements of the young republic was not a triumphant march. The men who had been marched through adobe towns and behind foreign standards stepped back into a world that expected reports, claims, and the tidy form of official narratives. They descended from ridges where frost rimed their tents, out of washes where water moved with a small, wind-chafed ripple, and from nights so clear that stars lay thick above them like scattered notes on a dark page.
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