86 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 
portraits of various chiefs, who have been at St. Louis to conclude 
treaties with the governor, who is also Indian 
the English; various crystals; a large piece of rock crystal; very 
of animal-hide, the other of tree-bark; a peace-belt, which consists 
of a white girdle, set with glass beads two hands breadth wide; far- 
ther, snow shoes; nets which are drawn over an oval frame; also the 
rackets, which they use in playing their game of ball, etc., etc.” 
Soon after the purchase of Louisiana steps were taken 
by the government to explore the then unknown wilds of 
our western country. The name of Zebulon Montgomery 
Pike* will always be associated with those of Lewis and 
Clark in the history of early explorations beyond the 
Mississippi. Pike’s expedition to the source of the Mis- 
Sissippi and his expedition to the sources of the Arkan- 
sas river and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado were the 
first military and the second governmental explorations 
which penetrated to any considerable extent our newly 
acquired territory of Louisiana. 
In July, 1805, Pike was ordered to explore and report 
upon the Mississippi river from St. Louis to its source, 
1807; and a tour through the interior parts of New Spain, when con- 
ducted through these provinces by order of the Captain General, in 
Whiting, Henry. Life of Z, M. Pike. Spark’s Lib. Amer. Biog. 5: 
219-317. 1848. 
Greely, A. W. Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer of the sources 
of the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers. Men of Achievement. Ex- 
plorers and Travellers, 163-193. 1893. 
The expedi 
Coues, Elliott, of Zebulon M. Pike. 1895. 
