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000866759 1001_ $$aMcCullough, David G.,$$eauthor.
000866759 24514 $$aThe pioneers :$$bthe heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal West /$$cDavid McCullough.
000866759 250__ $$aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
000866759 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bSimon & Schuster,$$c2019.
000866759 300__ $$a331 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$$billustrations (some color), maps, portraits ;$$c25 cm
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000866759 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000866759 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index.
000866759 5050_ $$aPart I: 1787-1794. The Ohio country -- Forth to the wilderness -- Difficult times -- Havoc -- Part II: 1795-1814.  A new era commences -- The Burr conspiracy -- Adversities aplenty -- Part III: 1815-1863. The cause of learning -- The travelers -- Journey's end.
000866759 520__ $$a"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."--Dust jacket.
000866759 60010 $$aCutler, Manasseh,$$d1742-1823.
000866759 60010 $$aCutler, Ephraim,$$d1767-1853.
000866759 60010 $$aPutnam, Rufus,$$d1738-1824.
000866759 60010 $$aBarker, Joseph,$$d1765-1843.
000866759 60010 $$aHildreth, Samuel P.$$q(Samuel Prescott),$$d1783-1863.
000866759 61010 $$aUnited States.$$tOrdinance of 1787.
000866759 650_0 $$aPioneers$$zOhio River Valley$$vBiography.
000866759 650_0 $$aFrontier and pioneer life$$zOhio River Valley.
000866759 651_0 $$aOhio River Valley$$xHistory$$yTo 1795.
000866759 651_0 $$aOhio River Valley$$xHistory.
000866759 651_0 $$aMarietta (Ohio)$$xHistory.
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