Pike decided to locate the origin of the Mississippi River and also traveled the Rocky Mountains and southwestern North America.
Explanation:
General Wilkinson sent Pike to that Rocky Mountains and that southwest in 1806 but meant formally known not to invade Spanish territory. Pike discovered Pike's Peak in Colorado just lost to surmount it. Advancing south, Pike did enter Spanish territory and was captured and brought to Santa Fe. Pike was the totality of the earliest Americans to view New Mexico. He was freed by the Spanish in Louisiana. His words about his journey in-advisedly declared that the region he covered it was mostly a desert, inadequate for cultivation.
