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U.S. OVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 658
115TH CONGRESS S REPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-371
PIKE NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL STUDY ACT
NOVEMBER 15, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKJ, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2876]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2876) to amend the National Trails System Act
to provide for the study of the Pike National Historic Trail, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 2876 is to amend the National Trails System
Act to authorize the study of the Pike National Historic Trail to as-
sess its suitability and feasibility for potential addition to the Na-
tional Trails System.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The proposed Pike National Historic Trail follows the expedition
of Zebulon Pike, a U.S. army officer and explorer. In 1806, Pike's
expedition embarked from St. Louis, Missouri, as Pike led a 20-
man exploring party 2,000 miles to Minnesota. He was then dis-
patched southwest to explore Spanish territory and established an
outpost near present-day Pueblo, Colorado, as his party encoun-
tered the Rocky Mountains. Unable to scale a mountain peak now
famously named Pike's Peak, the party proceeded south to north-
ern New Mexico. The party was apprehended and charged with il-
legal entry into New Mexico by Spanish officials, escorted across
Texas, and finally released in Louisiana, at the Spanish-American
border. In all, the expedition traversed seven present-day states,
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