"Expeditions of Pike, Long and the Spanish Exploration"

Palmer Lake Historical Society is Honored to Present: Wesley A. Brown (Wes) and “Expeditions of Pike, Long and the Spanish Exploration"

Father Domingues and Escalante, Governor Juan Bautista de Anza, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, and Major Stephen Long, each led important expeditions into Colorado. Before these expeditions, the place that would become Colorado was a blank on the Map. These expeditions in the late 1700s and early 1800s into uncharted territory, only known to the native population, resulted in the earliest printed mapping of the wondrous country that became Colorado.

Wes has been a collector of old maps since he was a teenager with a special interest in the exploration and settlement of the West and Colorado from the 16th through the 20th centuries.

The Palmer Lake Historical Society is an educational 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization serving the Palmer Divide area since 1956. FREE Tri-Lakes Historical Calendars will be available. Help celebrate Colorado's 150 Anniversary.

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