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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     McCullough, David G., author.     Subjects     Pioneers -- Ohio River Valley -- Biography.     Ohio River Valley -- History -- To 1795.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McCullough, David G., author.       by title:      The pioneers : the h...         MARC Display

The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal West / David McCullough. by McCullough, David G., author. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019. Subjects Pioneers -- Ohio River Valley -- Biography.   Ohio River Valley -- History -- To 1795. ISBN:  9781501168680 (hardcover) : 1501168681 (hardcover) : Description:  331 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated America's highest ideals. 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. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough's signature narrative energy."--Dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status Due Date   Aiea Public Library Adult Nonfiction 977 Mc   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 977 Mc   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 977 Mc   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 977 McCullough 2019 Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 977 Mc   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 977 Mc   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 977 Mc   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 977 Mc   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 977 Mc   Checked out 06/17/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 977 Mc   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 3 Next

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