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mainly on his own riding animal. A month later the 
Rocky Mountains were reached and the party turned south 
along their eastern edge to the Arkansas River. Feale was 
one of the party under Dr. James that was detailed to make 
the ascent of Pike’s Peake—the first ever to ascend that 
mountain. Long named the mountain James Peak in 
honor of Dr. James, saying that Pike had indeed given notice 
that there is such a peak, but he only saw it from a distance. 
However, Pike’s name still holds and probably always will. 
The expedition turned its back on the Rocky Mountains 
on July 19 and proceeded down the Arkansas River Peale 
was one of the party with Major Long and Dr. James to ex¬ 
plore the sources of the Red River, after which the expedi¬ 
tion continued on their way down the Arkansas. After 
visiting the hot springs of Arkansas they proceeded to Cape 
Girardeau, on the Mississippi River, in Missouri, below the 
mouth of the Ohio River, wdiere the party disbanded late 
in November, 1820. 
Among the collections made on this expedition were 60 
prepared skins of animals then new to science or rare, sev¬ 
eral thousand insects mostly new T , 500 species of plants, most 
of which were new and undescribed, and a large collection of 
shells and many minerals. ^ These collections were deposited 
in the Philadelphia Museum. Peale made 122 sketches dur¬ 
ing the trip which were also deposited in the Philadelphia 
Museum by Major Long. Many of them were afterwards 
elaborated and used in the illustration of the scientific 
papers published by the members of the expedition. Among 
them were numerous articles by Dr. Thomas Say. Bona¬ 
parte sent Peale to Florida in 1824. Volumes I and IV of 
Bonaparte’s American Ornithology, in which the birds col¬ 
lected on Long’s expedition were described, were both illus¬ 
trated with colored plates by Peale. 
Bonaparte, in the preface to his first volume, says: 
“I have been solicitous to procure the best representations 
of my birds and hope I have succeeded through the happy 
pencil of Mr. Titian Peale. A better choice could not have 
