Below is part of the chapter. The whole chapter can be read on the Iowa History Site. STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER VIII UP THE MISSISSIPPI WITH PIKE You have already learned how Iowa became a part of the United States, and how President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark up the missouri River to explore the western part of the new purchase. The government also wanted to learn more about the region of the upper Mississippi Valley. Accordingly early in the summer of 1805 General James Wilkinson at St. Louis ordered Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike to make a trip to the source of the Mississippi River. This Lieutenant Pike is the same man who later discovered and gave his name to Pike's Peak in Colorado, At this time he was only twenty-six years old. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/