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Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Zebulon Montgomery Pike, a U.S. Army officer, explored the upper Mississippi River while Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the Northwest in the early 1800s. His Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and Through the Western Parts of Lousiana (1810), was an early example narratives chronicling westward expansion.
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American Literature: Prose; Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
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