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Excerpt from Colorado History and Government: With State Constitution The first American explorer was Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, who was sent by General Wilkinson, then com mander of the United States army, to map the Arkansas and Red rivers and incidentally to make peace between the Pawnee and Osage Indians on the great plains west of the Missouri river. Leaving St. Louis in 1806, his command proceeded through the Indian country of western Missouri and southern Nebraska, and then turning south struck the Arkansas river in southwestern Kansas. Here Lieutenant Wilkinson was detached with a small command to follow the stream toward the Mississippi, while the dauntless Pike with his remaining followers pushed toward the unknown west. On the I sth of November he caught his first glimpse of the snow clad Rockies, and ten days later tried to climb the giant mountain that now bears his name. Two days of toil and storm-buffeting brought him to the snow-covered top of Cheyenne mountain, where, half starved and nearly frozen, he saw the mighty peak yet far away, mantled in cloud, majestic, unattainable. Then he turned again to his task and pushed into the mountains in a desperate attempt to find the source of the Arkansas in the winter season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Survey after survey reveals that many Coloradans believe that the U.S. government is too big, too wasteful, and too intrusive. Yet Colorado is arguably one of the most federally subsidized states in the union, with forests, national parks, military bases, and research laboratories benefiting from the federal government’s largesse. A concise history of Colorado’s constitution and central political institutions, Colorado Politics and Policy offers a probing analysis of the state’s political cultures. It shows how the state, in many ways a template of the deeply contrary politics of the nation, puts political power into the hands of an ever-more-polarized electorate increasingly inclined to put the concerns of government to the test of the citizen-initiative. Colorado Politics and Policy is the result of broad-gauged and sophisticated research which includes author interviews with citizens and officials across the state, three specially commissioned statewide public opinion surveys, and extensive interviews with governors, legislators, judges, lobbyists, interest group leaders, and leading political analysts. This fresh and engaging interpretation is essential reading for those who want to understand Colorado’s major election trends, chief public policy and budget challenges, and this distinctively purple state’s unique political history.