About the Author

Matthew L. Harris is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University-Pueblo and coeditor of The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America: A History in Documents. Jay H. Buckley is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, coauthor of By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, and author of William Clark: Indian Diplomat.

Reviews

"An impressive reconceptualization of Pike against the backdrop of nineteenth-century political intrigue and burgeoning imperialistic ambitions."--Chronicles of Oklahoma

"Editors Harris and Buckley are to be commended for a work that is both an important assemblage of useful scholarship and a thoroughly enjoyable read."--Oregon Historical Quarterly

"Stymied by his mountain, confused by western geography, captured by the Spaniards, Zebulon Pike has been the odd man out in Jeffersonian exploration history for two centuries now. This fine anthology of new essays about Pike and his circle should go far toward correcting our historical memory about that clarion moment when the Southwest first beckoned and Zebulon Pike became America's eyes."--Dan Flores, editor of Southern Counterpart to Lewis and Clark: The Freeman and Custis Expedition of 1806

"Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the West brings the most recent scholarship to the questions that have long surrounded Pike's foray into the Southwest, and helps to place the explorer firmly within the context of his more famous peers Lewis and Clark, Dunbar and Hunter, and Freeman and Custis."--Ron Tyler, author of Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist as Explorer