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The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal West

Title: The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal West / David McCullough.
Author: McCullough, David G.
Publication: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019.

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Description

331 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

"As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent figure in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as trees of a size never imagined, floods, fires, wolves, bears, even an earthquake, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough's subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index.

Language (note)

Text in English.

Contents

Part I: 1787-1794. The Ohio country -- Forth to the wilderness -- Difficult times -- Havoc -- Part II: 1795-1814. A new era commences -- The Burr conspiracy -- Adversities aplenty -- Part III: 1815-1863. The cause of learning -- The travelers -- Journey's end.

Call Number

JFE 22-804

ISBN

9781501168680
1501168681
9781982131661
1982131667

LCCN

2018057066
40029230751

OCLC

1079400726

Author

McCullough, David G., author.

Title

The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal West / David McCullough.

Publisher

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index.

Language

Text in English.

Chronological Term

To 1815

Other Standard Identifier

40029230751

Research Call Number

JFE 22-804

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