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Pike’s 1st Expedition (Upper) Mississippi
1805 - 1806
5
US STATES (1st)
192
Days - Up the Mississippi
72
Days - Down the Mississippi
1015
Miles - Up the Mississippi
904
Miles - Down the Missippi
Pike’s 1st Expedition (Upper) Mississippi
The 1st Pike Expedition (upper Mississippi River) 1805-6
“The Mississippi – She’s a Mighty Big River” – Mark Twain
- lasted 264 days (8/9/1805-4/30/1806)
- traveled more than 2000 miles in, what would become, 5 of today’s states along the Mississippi
- surveyed land for future American forts
- remained 85 days at their stockade on today’s Zebulon Pike Lake
- purchased land which is now Minneapolis/St. Paul
- created a temporary peace among native Americans on the Mississippi including the Sioux
- challenged the British in many areas now that they were on American soil
- found the then headwaters of the Mississippi River