Palmer Lake Historical Society: Wesley A. Brown (Wes) "Expeditions"

Thursday, April 16, 2026 7 TO 8:30 Palmer Lake Town Hall

“How the Expeditions of Pike, Long and the Spanish, Put Colorado on the Map”.

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, only known to the native population, resulted in the earliest printed mapping of the wonderous country that became Colorado.

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.

The Palmer Lake Historical Society is an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving the Palmer Divide area since 1956.

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