Pikes Peak has gone by many different names: Tava, Heey-otoyoo, Montaña del Sol, El Capitán, the Grand Peak, and finally Pike’s Peak, after explorer Zebulon Pike. The apostrophe was removed in 1890, becoming Pikes Peak.
Image: “View of Pike’s Peak” by George Caleb Bingham (1872). From the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
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