Mccullough David - The Pioneers The Heroic Story Of The Settlers Who Brought The American Ideal West - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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. Mc Cullough 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. Drawn in great part from a rare and all - but - unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures written with David Mc Cullough's signature narrative energy.
Title: The Pioneers The Heroic Story Of The Settlers Who Brought The American Ideal West
Author(s): Mccullough David
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781501168703
Pages: 352 Pages, 4 B 2x16-Pg 4-C Inserts
Publication Date: 5/5/2020
Category: American War Of Independence