Source: Zebulon Pike's Arkansaw Journal: In Search of the Southern Louisiana Purchase Boundary Line (interpreted by His Newly Recovered Maps).
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Famous Zebulon Pike Quotes
“He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.”
“May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.”
Source: The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike
“Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.”
Source: Journals, with Letters and Related Documents
“Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?”
Source: The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike
“On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.”
Source: The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike
“American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.”
Source: The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike
“Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.”
Source: Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States
“In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.”
Source: Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States
“Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.”
Source: Journals, with Letters and Related Documents
Source: The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike
“Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.”
Source: Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States
“Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?”
“I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.”
“They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.”
Source: Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States