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The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west  Cover Image Large Print Book Large Print Book

The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west / David McCullough.

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  • ISBN: 9781432865092
  • ISBN: 1432865099
  • Physical Description: 571 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered leaves divided into two sections of 21 and 25 plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Large print edition does not include index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-568).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823.
Cutler, Ephraim, 1767-1853.
Putnam, Rufus, 1738-1824.
Barker, Joseph, 1765-1843.
Hildreth, Samuel P. (Samuel Prescott), 1783-1863.
United States. Ordinance of 1787.
Pioneers > Ohio River Valley > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > Ohio River Valley.
Large type books.
Ohio River Valley > History > To 1795.
Ohio River Valley > History.
Marietta (Ohio) > History.

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Howe Library LT 977 MCC 31254003611627 Large type - Main floor Available -

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24514. ‡aThe pioneers : ‡bthe heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west / ‡cDavid McCullough.
264 1. ‡aWaterville, Maine : ‡bThorndike Press Large Print, ‡c2019.
300 . ‡a571 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered leaves divided into two sections of 21 and 25 plates : ‡billustrations, maps, portraits ; ‡c23 cm.
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500 . ‡aLarge print edition does not include index.
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 467-568).
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.
520 . ‡aAs 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. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures.
60010. ‡aCutler, Manasseh, ‡d1742-1823.
60010. ‡aCutler, Ephraim, ‡d1767-1853.
60010. ‡aPutnam, Rufus, ‡d1738-1824.
60010. ‡aBarker, Joseph, ‡d1765-1843.
60010. ‡aHildreth, Samuel P. ‡q(Samuel Prescott), ‡d1783-1863.
61010. ‡aUnited States. ‡tOrdinance of 1787.
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651 0. ‡aOhio River Valley ‡xHistory ‡yTo 1795.
651 0. ‡aOhio River Valley ‡xHistory.
651 0. ‡aMarietta (Ohio) ‡xHistory.
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