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After discovering PikeÕs Peak, Zebulon Pike and his men gave up trying to climb the ascent after two days without food. Pike then turned his sights to finding the headwaters of the Red River. While following it, the expedition ended up in Spanish New Mexico and were captured by the Spanish.

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