On The Road To Statehood – Celebrating 175 Years – 1806.

Posted on by
When most folks hear the name Zebulon Pike, their thoughts generally take them to the Rocky Mountains and one of the best-known mountain tops in Colorful Colorado: Pikes Peak – just west of Colorado Springs. But when you dig deeper into the story of Zebulon Pike, you’ll find that there’s another Pikes Peak – an earlier one – located right here in the Hawkeye State.

On returning from his 1805-1806 Mississippi River Expedition, Zebulon Pike described his men as being “perfectly capable of getting the job done, but all in all, a set of Dam’d Rascals!”

“For those men have served with me many a long year and notwithstanding – they are such Dam’d Rascals that you could keep no ducks or fowls for them, yet I think them very clever fellows.”

READ MORE ABOUT THIS IOWA STORY HERE.

Click here to visit our 175th Statehood Anniversary page…

Did you know? is an Our Iowa Heritage blog series that offers you a little bit of Iowa trivia from a large selection of stories on our website. Subscribe to this FREE blog and you’ll get a new email from us every Monday – Wednesday – Friday.

Join us for Our Iowa Heritage blog posts.

Learn some historical facts about Iowa City, Johnson County, or Eastern Iowa.

Amaze your friends.

Click to learn more.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s