mined his health; he became subject
to fits of depression, and on October 8, 1809, he put an end to his life
in a lonely cabin near Nashville, Tennessee, where he had stopped for a
night's lodging. Clark lived thirty years longer, serving as Indian
agent, governor of Missouri, and superintendent of Indian affairs.
While Lewis and Clark were struggling across the continent, another
young adventurer was conducting some explorations farther to the east.
Zebulon Pike, aged twenty-seven, a captain in the regular army, was, in
1805, appointed to lead an expedition to the source of the Mississippi.
He accomplished this, after a hard journey lasting nine months; and, a
year later, leading another expedition to the southwest, discovered a
great mountain which he named Pike's Peak, and, continuing southward,
came out on the Rio Grande. He was in Spanish territory, and was held
prisoner for a time, but was finally released upon representations from
the government at Washington. He rose steadily in the service, and in
1813, during the second war with England, led an assault upon Little
York, now Toronto. The town was captured, but the fleeing British
exploded a powder magazine, and General Pike was crushed and killed
beneath the flying fragments. He died with his head on the British flag,
which had been hauled down and brought to him.
The next step to be recorded in the growth of the United States is a
step variously regarded as infamous or glorious--but it was marked by
one of the most heroic incidents in history, and dominated by the
picturesque and remarkable personality of Sam Houston.
The purchase of Louisiana from the French brought the United States in
direct contact with Mexico, which claimed a great territory in the
southwest, and, finally, in 1819, a line between the possessions of the
two countries was agreed upon. It left Mexico in possession of the wide
stretch of country now included in the states of California, Nevada,
Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.