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Pikes Peak Pikes Peak, Colorado Pikes Peak View of Pikes Peak from forty miles distant; from Fremonts report of his expedition.The government responded to interest in the Far West by sending John C. Fremont, a young Army engineer, on a series of expeditions to survey and map the trails to Oregon and California. Fremont spent 1842 in the Wind River Mountains and in 1843–44 led an expedition that marched from St. Louis to Oregon, then south into Nevada and across the Sierra into California, returning East by way of Nevada and Utah.
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Add new Web site: CORE - A Review of the Pikes Peak Batholith, Front Range, Central Colorado: A "Type Example" of A-Type Granitic Magmatism. Dec 07, 2024
Add new Web site: USGS Publications Warehouse - Description of the Pikes Peak Sheet. Oct 07, 2024
Add new Web site: American Museum of Natural History - From Uplift to Glaciation: The Geological History of the Pikes Peak Region. Jan 08, 2024
Add new Web site: History Colorado - The Mountain of the Sun: The Many Names of Pikes Peak. Dec 01, 2023
Map added. Oct 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Colorado Encyclopedia - Pikes Peak. Feb 09, 2023
Article revised and updated. Jan 21, 2014
Photograph of Pikes Peak added. Jan 21, 2014
Media added. May 06, 2008
Added new Web site: America's Mountains - Pikes Peak. Apr 17, 2008
Added new Web site: Official Site of Pikes Peak, Colorado. Apr 17, 2008
Added new Web site: Cave of the Winds - Geological History of Cave of the Winds. Aug 09, 2007
Article revised. Mar 14, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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