NMLP P-035408 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi

Zebulon Montgomery Pike · C. and A. Conrad & Co. (Philadelphia), with Somervell & Conrad (Petersburg, VA), Bonsal, Conrad & Co. (Norfolk), and Fielding Lucas Jr. (Baltimore) · 1810

This is the first published account by any American of an official U.S. government expedition into the Southwest, written up by Pike after his return to the United States in mid-1807, covering his 1806-07 reconnaissance during which Spanish troops arrested his party at a stockade on the Conejos River in present-day Colorado, then marched them south through Santa Fe for interrogation and on to Chihuahua before releasing them

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035408 for "An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi" by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035408, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).