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. Now, in the cramped offices of Washington, maps were unfolded, and visions of the unexplored interior buzzed with possibility. For one lieutenant, Zebulon Pike, those possibilities became a personal mission.Aurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 34 minutes, one complete story.Learn more at: https://theexplorationarchive.com/exploration/zebulon-pike-expeditionThe Exploration Archive Dialogues is part of The Archive Network by Jonkai Ventures. In every episode, curators Aurelius and Malik take one expedition and follow it from departure to consequence — one telling the journey, the other pressing on what the account leaves out.
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