Lt. Zebulon Pike first saw Pikes Peak from the eastern portion of what we now call Colorado in 1806. Commissioned by ...

Eighty years ago, two men arrived at the pay gate of the highway that winds up Pikes Peak. The mountain, as you probably know, is named for explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who saw the peak that ...

ALTO, Texas (KLTV) - Did you know the namesake of Pike’s Peak once came through East Texas? It’s the subject of this week’s Mark in Texas History. In 1807, Lt. Zebulon (Zeb-you-lawn) Pike led an ...

Stretching from Denver to Mexico City, through Frisco, Salida, Alamosa and parts in between, this week’s Hey, Spike! provides historical insights from 211 years ago to just the other day. First stop ...

Orsi, an assistant professor of history at Colorado State University and author of a book about urban ecology in Los Angeles (Hazardous Metropolis), turns his hand to a study of an explorer whose name ...

Selection of a book review often involves diversion down unexpected pathways. With the annual commemoration of the Battle of Plattsburgh scheduled each September, I’ve been thinking about Zebulon Pike ...

Roughly 120 Colorado Springs Utilities customers are still without power Thursday morning after an early morning crash in southeast Colorado Springs. (Courtesy KKTV) There is a mountain of some ...

COLORADO SPRINGS – My first sight of Colorado’s Pikes Peak came about 20 years ago when hunting deer near Limon, population 1,880, roughly 73 miles east across the prairie. Pikes Peak stands in such ...

Jan. 2—Back in 1805, Zebulon Montgomery Pike set forth with an exploring party to discover the headwaters of the Mississippi River. It was an expedition that spanned 2,000 miles, carrying Pike and his ...