Zebulon Pike quote: I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred...

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

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Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.268

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