https://www.mallhistory.org/files/original/3a8e4a8ac20ac453c378a824a8000bd6.jpg 9438c8b392eb4f2c77bbcdc5623bee0f Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Thursday 10 of AM Sir I send by the bearer a small box containing pecans which was committed to my dearest by Gov. Claibourne, also a bow and quiver of arrows which are the offensive weapons of the Appaches, a nation of savages who formerly extended from the entrance of the Rio del Norte, on the Atlantic to the Gulf of California and who were the Great ballancing nation of the I. clans, but from continual struggle with the Spaniards, are now reduced to Seven hundred men, but still continue to keep the frontiers of four provinces in alarms and give employ to two or three thousand dragoons They neither give nor receive quarter from the Spaniards. I had collected a Variety of curiosities of various Savage tribes through which we passed; skins of different beasts and birds of a new species (to me) also various samples of the Industry and advancement of the Arts amongst the Spanish missions or civilized Indians but owing to the extensive & rapid journey which we made by land through the Spanish Country and the division of my party, the principal part were lost or remained behind, but I yet expect some to be forwarded Via New Orleans. There was shipped from New Orleans, for your Excellency in the Brig Neptune Capt. Sheppeard Master, bound to Baltimore a pair of Grisly Bears (mail & femail) which I bought from the dividing ridges of the Pacific & Atlantic Oceans. They are certainly of a different species from any Bears we had in the Antient limits of the United States; and are considered by the natives of that country as the most ferocious Animals of the Continent. I am Sir with Huge Respect Your obt servt Zebulon Pike Capt. His Excy Thomas Jefferson Esq Prest U States Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Zebulon Pike to Thomas Jefferson, October 29, 1807 Description An account of the resource Among the items Captain Zebulon Pike sent to President Thomas Jefferson from the western United States was a pair of grizzly bear cubs. Jefferson kept them in a garden on the south side of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66">White House</a> for a short time before sending the animals to a museum in Philadelphia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Zebulon Pike (author) Thomas Jefferson (recipient) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress. <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib017832">View original</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/29/1807 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-1829 environment work & play