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- ISBN
- 1501168703
- Book Title
- Pioneers : the Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), United States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's " as resonant today as ever" ( The Wall Street Journal )--the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country. 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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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1501168703
ISBN-13
9781501168703
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038700932
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pioneers : the Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), United States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
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Reviews
A lively history of the Ohio River region in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War. . . . [McCullough's] narrative abounds with well-recognized figures in American history--John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Johnny Appleseed--while highlighting lesser-known players. . . . Vintage McCullough and a book that students of American history will find captivating., McCullough is a master of research along with being a wonderful storyteller. He takes the history of the area and turns what could be dry and dull into vibrant and compelling tales. . . . Lovers of history told well know that McCullough is one of the best writers of our past, and his latest will only add to his acclaim., Readers will immediately recognize that storytelling is one of Mr. McCullough's great literary strengths. He consistently produces engaging prose about a particular period of time, and makes history come alive., A tale of uplift, with the antislavery settlers embodying a vision of all that was best about American values and American ideals., In his usual revealing style, McCullough has crafted another dynamic volume of American history. With clarity and incisiveness, he 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. They were indeed the pioneers., David McCullough has become perhaps our best-loved chronicler of America's past. . . . The Pioneers is the account not just of one Ohio settlement but of myriad such places across America, where innumerable immigrants (as the settlers were known) came to make a fresh start in a strange land. It is a story as resonant today as ever., McCullough is among the most thoughtful and thorough historians of the past two generations. . . . [A] great American mind., Like McCullough's other books, The Pioneers succeeds because of the author's strength as a storyteller. The book reads like a novel, with a cast of fascinating characters that the average reader isn't likely to know about. . . . A worthy addition to McCullough's impressive body of work., To read The Pioneers is to understand that the settlement of the Northwest Territory was, in some ways, a second phase of the American Revolution - a messy experiment, touched by high ideals and bitter conflicts, that still resonates in ways we're only beginning to grasp.
Copyright Date
2020
Dewey Decimal
977
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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