The formative years of the American West were teeming with treachery and provocative national and international politics—facts unmistakably voiced in this book by editors Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley. The naive, yet eager patriot Zebulon Montgomery Pike played a key role in the sometimes unbelievable, yet unexaggerated drama recounted in these essays by some of the 21st century’s leading Western historians. Following the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson’s na
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