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**//__Pikes Exploration__//**
 * While Lewis and Clark were traveling today across the West, Zebulon Pike, a young army officer, was sent on another mission of exploration, he was sent to find the starting point of red river, which runs though louisiana and along some of the northern borders. Pike led his small army to colorado. Were he tried to climb the mountian. The spanish suspeccted Pikes as a spy and imprisoned him. **