The Pioneers
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
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The Pioneers
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John Bedford Lloyd
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David McCullough
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 pioneer in American science. “With clarity and incisiveness, [McCullough] details the experience of a brave and broad-minded band of people who crossed raging rivers, chopped down forests, plowed miles of land, suffered incalculable hardships, and braved a lonely frontier to forge a new American ideal” (The Providence Journal).
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. “A tale of uplift” (The New York Times Book Review), this is a quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
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The wait is over, McCullough is back!
"As a history fanatic, any time one of the all-time-greats like David McCullough—two Pulitzers, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom—drops some new material, it’s cause for rampant celebration. And the selection to the left is, naturally, more than worthy of the hype. One of the things that I love about McCullough’s work is that he takes the lesser-known, or at least lesser-discussed, aspects of our shared American past, and brings them to the forefront by telling stories that resonate with modern listeners. While it is true that not all aspects of our shared past are things we should be proud of, McCullough does not shy away from the hard truths associated with the relationship between these settlers and the indigenous peoples they encountered—there are still lessons to be learned from any chronicle of our past. This is more than a story of American settlement. This is a story about immigration. This is a story about what it means to move your entire existence to a new location and attempt to start fresh, even when the going gets rough." —Kyle S., Audible Editor
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he is a national treasure
and this work is a delight
i would prefer david reading it
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travel story
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Average
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Not a great book from the legend
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I otherwise thoroughly enjoyed the book. I think a trip to Marietta is in order.
Another classic
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