Mr. Sears' kit homes

Monday, March 22, 2010

Zebulon Pike's adventures to the territory of the Louisiana Purchase, in 1806, have sometimes been compared to the Voyage of Discovery of Lewis and Clark. But Pike lacked the observation skills and the optimism of the earlier duo. He did the country he explored, which we now refer to as the High Plains region of America, a great disservice when he wrote, "those vast plains of the western hemisphere may become, in time, as celebrated as the sandy wastes of Africa". He sent a map of the area to President Jefferson, with the notation, "not a stick of timber in the entire area!"

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