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Zebulon Pike Expedition - Part 1: A young lieutenant's quest to map the frontier
The wheels sighed, the oxen tugged, and the column drew away from the last houses of St. Louis. What awaited on the plains would demand immediate adaptation and reveal how small a band could be when the continent itself pressed upon them. The year was eighteen oh six, and the young United States was still feeling the echoes of its revolutionary past. The acquisition of the Louisiana Territory had reshaped the continent.
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