Pike was ordered by general James Wilkinson to locate the source of the Mississippi river.
He managed to fight the Colorado peak, which was named after him.
Pikes Peak rises 14,110 feet to the sky in Colorado.
What the U.S. Army explorer Zebulon Pike once considered unconquerable, climbers now regularly traverse the 28-mile route from Mountain Springs to the top and back.
The U.S. Constitution uses federalism to divide governmental powers between the federal government and the individual state governments. The Tenth Amendment tells us that all powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states
