The pioneers: the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west
(Large Print)
As part of the Treaty of Paris, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness 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, and 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. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, letting no obstacle deter or defeat them while they coped with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Drawn largely from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, this is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments.
McCullough, D. G. (2019). The pioneers: the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)McCullough, David G.. 2019. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)McCullough, David G., The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press Large Print, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)McCullough, David G.. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press Large Print, 2019.
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505 | 0 | |a The Ohio country -- Forth to the wilderness -- Difficult times -- Havoc -- A new era commences -- The Burr conspiracy -- Adversities aplenty -- The cause of learning -- The travelers -- Journey's end. | |
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