Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West: by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. X + 242 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.95 (PB). ISBN 9780806169101.

I Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West i is a set of seven essays (and introduction) that seek to rehabilitate the reputation of Zebulon Montgomery Pike and reinvigorate scholarship on his explorations. By 1966, though, the editor of Pike's papers judged Pike to be a complete failure: "he accomplished almost nothing" (p. 12). Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West: by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley. [Extracted from the article]