Zebulon Pike.... Spy for Aaron Burr or patriotic explorer?

Did you know...

...that America's controversy over aliens goes back generations? Congress passed the Alien Act on June 25, 1798 - authorizing the President to deport aliens "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" during peacetime.

...that President John Tyler married his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler when he was 54 years old and she was only 24 years of age? Traveling to New York City, they eloped in 1844.

...that Zebulon Pike never set foot on the mountain that bears his name - Pike's Peak? Or that Pike was accused of spying on the Spaniards for Aaron Burr General James Wilkinson, but later exonerated?

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