{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Zebulon Pike Expedition - Part 5: Reflections on impact and the cost of exploration","description":"The return to the settlements of the young republic was not a triumphant march. The men who had been marched through adobe towns and behind foreign standards stepped back into a world that expected reports, claims, and the tidy form of official narratives.\r\n\r\nThey descended from ridges where frost rimed their tents, out of washes where water moved with a small, wind-chafed ripple, and from nights so clear that stars lay thick above them like scattered notes on a dark page.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://theexplorationarchive.com/exploration/zebulon-pike-expedition","author_name":"The Archive Network"}