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VW's Electrifying Bid to Dominate the Pikes Peak Race

VW's Electrifying Bid to Dominate the Pikes Peak Race

VW's Electrifying Bid to Dominate the Pikes Peak Race

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June 22, 20186m 3s

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In 1805, Zebulon Pike, a US Army officer and explorer, explored the Louisiana territory his young country had just bought on the cheap, hunting for the source of the mighty Mississippi River. A year later, he led expeditions through the Spanish settlements of New Mexico and Texas. But in November of 1806, he and his men met their match in Colorado, while trying to scale a mountain that towers 8,000 feet above the surrounding region.

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