Eighty years ago, two men arrived at the pay gate of the highway that winds up Pikes Peak. The mountain, as you probably know, is named for explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who saw the peak that ...

ALTO, Texas (KLTV) - Did you know the namesake of Pike’s Peak once came through East Texas? It’s the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History. In 1807, Lt. Zebulon (Zeb-you-lawn) Pike led an ...

Orsi, an assistant professor of history at Colorado State University and author of a book about urban ecology in Los Angeles (Hazardous Metropolis), turns his hand to a study of an explorer whose name ...

Reprinted from a story I wrote in 2006 for a Gazette special edition on the 200th anniversary of Zebulon Pike's expedition. Pikes Peak towers above the town, visible from almost any vantage point.

Zebulon Pike Zebulon Pike (January 5, 1779- April 27, 1813) was an American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was named. Pike was born in New Jersey during the time of the ...

In 1806, in what today is Colorado, a U.S. Army explorer named Zebulon Pike stumbled across the highest mountain in the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains and discovered a towering peak that ...

On the precious map, San Antonio shows up as a cluster of dots within concentric ovals. From there, a dotted line crosses the San Antonio, Guadalupe and San Marcos rivers. The line then passes through ...

Temple dismissed Zebulon Pike County by a 57-6 count on Aug. 18 in Georgia football. Temple opened with a 20-0 advantage over Zebulon Pike County through the first quarter. The Tigers opened a massive ...