The founder of Fort Snelling, an island named for this man was the destination of many involved in a mass hanging during the Dakota War in Mankato, Minnesota.
The founder of Fort Snelling, an island named for this man was the destination of many involved in a mass hanging during the Dakota War in Mankato, Minnesota. During the War of 1812, he served in New Orleans as inspector-general, having earlier commanded the Fourth Infantry at the Battle of Tippecanoe before being killed in an attack on modern-day Toronto. He misidentified Leech Lake as the source of the Mississippi River when Governor James Wilkinson sent him on his first expedition, while a second expedition ended in arrest by the Spanish, but not before he coined the phrase "Great American Desert." FTP, name this American explorer, who has a namesake "peak" in Colorado.
The founder of Fort Snelling, an island named for this man was the destination of many involved in a mass hanging during the Dakota War in Mankato, Minnesota.
Zebulon Montgomery {Pike}