Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

- Zebulon Pike

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

- Zebulon Pike

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes b…

- Zebulon Pike

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have …

- Zebulon Pike

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

- Zebulon Pike

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

- Zebulon Pike

In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.

- Zebulon Pike

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

- Zebulon Pike

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.

- Zebulon Pike