It's believed that Pikes Peak is named after 19th-century explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike, however, he wasn't the first one to name the mountain. He might've been the first white American explorer in the area to document his journey, but long before he ever set foot on the mountain, the Ute People called it Tavakiev or "Sun Mountain.
According to Lobello, Pike never actually referred to the mountain as his own. In his writings and maps, the reference to his name was only used because he was the one observing the mountain.
He never meant to claim Pikes Peak as his own. Pike never actually climbed to the top of Pikes Peak. James Edmund is known as the first white explorer to succeed, and the name "James Peak" began to gain traction soon after. When looking at Zebulon Pike's maps, people would refer to it as "Pike's Grandest Peak", and the name we know now came soon after.
However, during that time period, the printing press was difficult to use and required each individual letter to be placed by hand. Out of convenience, newspapers, and topographers shortened the name to simply "Pike's Peak. But there was still the apostrophe back then. Towards the end of the s was when the name as we knew it came into existence. In , the U. According to the board's ' Principles, Policies, and Procedures,' apostrophes would not be applied when referring to a specific geographic name.
The word or words that form a geographic name change their connotative function and together become a single denotative unit. The name is and will be the Pikes Peak Summit Complex. Seth Boster Features writer Seth is a features writer at The Gazette, covering the outdoors and the people and places that make Colorado colorful.
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