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While Lewis and Clark were traveling across the West, A young army officer, named Zebulon Pike was sent out to find the starting point of the red river, he may also have had instructions to spy on Spanish outposts and forts in the southwest too. Pike and his crew tried to climb the mountain known today as Pikes Peak. When He reached the Rio Grande a group of Spanish Calvary Imprisoned him, when he was released he came back to the united states and reported on all the things he found on his trip.