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Handbook of Texas Online: ALVAREZ DE PINEDA, ALONSO - English
URL: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/print/AA/fal72.html

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Alonso Álvarez de Pineda commanded a Spanish expedition that sailed along the Gulf of Mexico coastline from Florida to Cabo Rojo, Mexico, in 1519. He and his men were the first Europeans to explore and map the Gulf littoral between the areas previously explored by Juan Ponce De Leónqv and Diego Velázquez.

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Lt. Zebulon Pike in Spanish Texas - English
URL: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/pikejour.htm

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In Feb 1807, explorer Lt. Zebulon Pike was arrested on the upper Rio Grande River by Spanish forces on his government-sanctioned exploration of the Arkansas and Red Rivers. He was escorted as a "guest-prisoner" through Santa Fe and parts of current New Mexico, Chihuahua where they met Commander of the Provincias Internas Salcedo, the current Mexican states of Durango and then Coahuila to Montelovez (now Monclova).

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Pike's Journal - English
URL: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~landc/html/pike.html

An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana..." (Philadelphia: C. & A. Conrad, 1810), Olin, 1-8

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Handbook of Texas Online: PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY - English
URL: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/print/PP/fpi19.html

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Zebulon Montgomery Pike, United States army officer and Western explorer, was born on January 5, 1779, at Lamberton, now a part of Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Isabella (Brown) and Zebulon Pike, a veteran of the American Revolution and a lieutenant colonel in the United States army.

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