Wilkinson’s expedition was the first to report __________.
A.a description of what life was like in Oklahoma
B.the presence of oil in Oklahoma
C.the discovery of the Red River headwaters
D.an illustration of the Rocky Mountains
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From
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/P/PI007.html
Many of the objectives of this expedition were fulfilled. In 1806 Wilkinson ordered Pike and an ill prepared party of twenty-two to seek the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, obtain the return of some Osage captives, make peace between the Osage and Kansas Indians, and establish a dialogue with the Comanche. Wilkinson's son, Lt. James Biddle Wilkinson, would accompany Pike on this expedition. Many scholars assume that there were also secret instructions given by Wilkinson to Pike as well ordering him to carefully reconnoiter the strength of the Spanish presence along the borderlands of the newly acquired Louisiana Territory, of which present Oklahoma was a part, and in northern New Mexico. Crossing the prairies and plains in July and August 1806, Pike and his twenty-three men returned the Osage captives to their tribe, met with the Pawnee at their villages on the Republican River in southern Nebraska, and followed the Arkansas River into Colorado.
By the end of December 1806 five privates under the command of young Lieutenant Wilkinson had formed a second exploring party. They set forth in a southeastward direction to explore the lower course of the Arkansas River. Crossing present Oklahoma, they reconnoitered, traveling in canoes down the Arkansas to its confluence with the Mississippi River in Arkansas. The Wilkinson party then returned up the Mississippi to St. Louis.
The balance of the expedition's forces under Pike explored the headwaters of the Arkansas River and sought the source of the Red River. In January of 1807 Pike led his men across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains into the San Luis Valley. Passing by the Great Sand Dunes, Pike's party discovered the upper reaches of the Rio Grande River. They were apprehended by Spanish forces near the end of February 1807, taken to Santa Fe, and then marched 260 miles to Chihuahua, Mexico. The Spanish expelled Pike and his men in July of 1807.