How the Expeditions of Pike, Long, and the Spanish put Colorado on the Map – by Wesley A. Brown – 2026

Date:  Thursday, April 16, 2026
Time:  7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location:  Palmer Lake Town Hall

Father Domingues and Escalante, Governor Juan Bautista de Anza, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, and Major Stephen Long each led important expeditions into Colorado. Before these expeditions, the place that would become Colorado was a blank on the Map. These expeditions in the late 1700s and early 1800s into uncharted territory, known only to the native population, resulted in the earliest printed maps of the wondrous country that became Colorado.

Wesley A. Brown (Wes) has been a collector of old maps since he was a teenager, with a special interest in the exploration and settlement of the West and Colorado from the 16th through the 20th centuries.