Citizen Explorer: The Adventurous Life of Zebulon Pike by Jared Orsi (English) H

Description: Citizen Explorer by Jared Orsi Life and times biography of a key explorer of the US West. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic.In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldierand explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Born in 1779, Pike joined the army and served in frontier posts in the Ohio River valley before embarking on a series of astonishingexpeditions. He sought the headwaters of the Mississippi and later the sources of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, which led him to Pikes Peak and capture by Spanish forces. Along the way, he met Aaron Burr and General James Wilkinson; Auguste and Pierre Couteau, patriarchs of St. Louiss most powerful fur-trading family, who sought to make themselves indispensible to Jeffersons administration; as well as British fur-traders, Native Americans, and officers of the Spanish empire, all of whomresisted the expansion of the United States. Through Pikes life, Orsi examines how American nationalism thinned as it stretched west, from the Jeffersonian idealism on the Atlantic to a practical,materialist sensibility on the frontier. Surveying and gathering data, Pike sought to incorporate these distant territories into the republic, to overlay the west with the American map grid; yet he became increasingly dependent for survival on people who had no attachment to the nation he served. He eventually died in that service, in a victorious battle in the War of 1812. Written from an environmental perspective, rich in cultural and political context, CitizenExplorer is a state-of-the-art biography of a remarkable man. Author Biography Jared Orsi is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University. He is the author of the prizing-winning Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles. Table of Contents Prologue Coming of Age in the RevolutionCh 1 "The Happiness of a Free and Independent People": A Family and a Nation Seek Liberty, 1635-1794Ch 2 The Bargain of Independence, 1794-1805Ch 3 "A Barrier to Their Trade": Establishing Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1805-1806Ch 4 "Young Warriors" of the "Great American Father": Crossing the Plains, July- November 1806Ch 5 "Frozen Lads": Into The Rockies, November 1806-February 1807Ch 6 A Comfortable Captivity: Traveling through New Spain, February-July 1807Ch 7 Citizen Soldier: Pikes Final Search for Independence, 1807-1813Epilogue From "Frozen Lads" to "Purple Mountain Majesties": Pikes West and American Nationalism, 1813-1893NotesBibliography Review "[An] engaging, readable, and insightful biographical history..."--Ohio Valley History"In bringing the tools of environmental history to bear on themes that have long engaged scholars of the early republic, Orsi gives us a fresh take on Pikes life and the spaces he explored....[Citizen Explorer is] a boundary-crossing model worth emulating."--Western Historical Quarterly"As Orsi demonstrates in this nifty environmental biography, the true state of Pike and his nation was in flux....Orsis environmental biography invites further contemplations, large scale and small."--Jon T. Coleman, Environmental History"This interesting and well-researched book fills the information gap concerning Pike....In Citizen Explorer Jared Orsi, an associate professor of history at Colorado State University, finally presents the complex and almost-quixotic life of Pike....In his impressive collection of primary and secondary sources, Orsi was able to discover the hidden life of a simple soldier who rose to the role of brigadier general."--Journal of American History"With thorough research and clear prose, Jared Orsi insightfully recovers the dramatic life and violent death of a military hero and western explorer of the early republic. In an unstable age of competing regions, Zebulon Pike pioneered a national style of manhood which flourished in, and gave shape to, the American West."--Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832"Shifting his lens between grand politics and the nitty-gritty of early American life, Jared Orsi gives us a wonderfully real Zebulon Pike, grounded in the material realities that determined personal and social choices in the evolving West. He presents us with Pike as a man of his times, caught by the promises of a nation that couldnt yet deliver on them."--Anne F. Hyde, author of Empires, Nations, and Families, A New History of the American West,1800-1860 Promotional The definitive biography of an explorer who rivaled Lewis & Clark. Prizes Commended for Colorado Book Award (History) 2015 Long Description It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic.In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldierand explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Born in 1779, Pike joined the army and served in frontier posts in the Ohio River valley before embarking on a series of astonishing expeditions. He sought the headwaters of the Mississippi and later the sources of the Arkansas and RedRivers, which led him to Pikes Peak and capture by Spanish forces. Along the way, he met Aaron Burr and General James Wilkinson; Auguste and Pierre Couteau, patriarchs of St. Louiss most powerful fur-trading family, who sought to make themselves indispensible to Jeffersons administration; as well as British fur-traders, Native Americans, and officers of the Spanish empire, all of whom resisted the expansion of the United States. Through Pikes life, Orsi examines how American nationalismthinned as it stretched west, from the Jeffersonian idealism on the Atlantic to a practical, materialist sensibility on the frontier. Surveying and gathering data, Pike sought to incorporate these distant territories into the republic, to overlay the west with the American map grid; yet he becameincreasingly dependent for survival on people who had no attachment to the nation he served. He eventually died in that service, in a victorious battle in the War of 1812. Written from an environmental perspective, rich in cultural and political context, Citizen Explorer is a state-of-the-art biography of a remarkable man. Review Text "In bringing the tools of environmental history to bear on themes that have long engaged scholars of the early republic, Orsi gives us a fresh take on Pikes life and the spaces he explored. ... [Citizen Explorer is] a boundary-crossing model worth emulating." --Western Historical Quarterly"This interesting and well-researched book fills the information gap concerning Pike. ... In Citizen Explorer Jared Orsi, an associate professor of history at Colorado State University, finally presents the complex and almost-quixotic life of Pike. ... In his impressive collection of primary and secondary sources, Orsi was able to discover the hidden life of a simple soldier who rose to the role of brigadier general." --Journal of AmericanHistory"With thorough research and clear prose, Jared Orsi insightfully recovers the dramatic life and violent death of a military hero and western explorer of the early republic. In an unstable age of competing regions, Zebulon Pike pioneered a national style of manhood which flourished in, and gave shape to, the American West." --Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832"Shifting his lens between grand politics and the nitty-gritty of early American life, Jared Orsi gives us a wonderfully real Zebulon Pike, grounded in the material realities that determined personal and social choices in the evolving West. He presents us with Pike as a man of his times, caught by the promises of a nation that couldnt yet deliver on them." --Anne F. Hyde, author of Empires, Nations, and Families, A New History of the American West,1800-1860 Review Quote "With thorough research and clear prose, Jared Orsi insightfully recovers the dramatic life and violent death of a military hero and western explorer of the early republic. In an unstable age of competing regions, Zebulon Pike pioneered a national style of manhood which flourished in, and gave shape to, the American West." --Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 "Shifting his lens between grand politics and the nitty-gritty of early American life, Jared Orsi gives us a wonderfully real Zebulon Pike, grounded in the material realities that determined personal and social choices in the evolving West. He presents us with Pike as a man of his times, caught by the promises of a nation that couldnt yet deliver on them." --Anne F. Hyde, author of Empires, Nations, and Families, A New History of the American West, 1800-1860 Feature Conferences: AHA, OAH, WHA, ASEHSelling point: The first modern account of Zebulon Pikes life of astonishing adventureSelling point: Examines his explorations through an environmental lens Details ISBN0199768722 Author Jared Orsi Language English ISBN-10 0199768722 ISBN-13 9780199768721 Format Hardcover Short Title CITIZEN EXPLORER Media Book Birth 1970 Subtitle The Adventurous Life of Zebulon Pike Affiliation Colorado State University Position Associate Professor of History Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2014-01-23 NZ Release Date 2014-01-23 US Release Date 2014-01-23 Pages 392 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-01-23 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Alternative 9780190674144 DEWEY 973.4092 Illustrations 53 hts Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2014-01-15 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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