1805 A.D.
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Zebulon Pike of the U. S. Army is ordered to find the true source of the Mississippi. He makes his preparations in the American Bottom and leaves his family at Fort Charles, across the river from Alton. This trip was considered a failure but in a subsequent 1806 expedition to explore the Arkansas River, he discovers the peak later named for him.
Piggott's widow moves to St. Louis on a farm on the Rock Road near Fee Fee. She will be very active in the Methodist church. Frances Piggott, now remarried to a man named Jacob Collard, rents the ferry business for a ten year period to John Campbell of St. Louis.
