Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West

Introduction : Zebulon Montgomery Pike in American memory / Matthew L. Harris

Pike as a forgotten and misunderstood explorer / Jay H. Buckley

Pike and empire / James P. Ronda

Pike and American science / John Logan Allen

Jeffersonian explorers in the trans-Mississippi West : Zebulon Pike in perspective / Jay H. Buckley

An empire and ecology of liberty / Jared Orsi

Enemies and friends : Pike and Melgares in the competition for the Great Plains / Leo E. Oliva

James Wilkinson : Pike's mentor and Jefferson's capricious point man in the West / William E. Foley.