2019, ISBN: 9781501168680

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NY: Simon and Schuster, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Fine-Collectible/Fine. Physical Info: 1.2" H x 9.3" L x 6.6" W (1.48 lbs) 352 pages. Second printing. Navy boards. Navy spin… Mehr…

NY: Simon and Schuster, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Fine-Collectible/Fine. Physical Info: 1.2" H x 9.3" L x 6.6" W (1.48 lbs) 352 pages. Second printing. Navy boards. Navy spine w/gold foil letters on spine. DJ design by Jackie Snow. DJ painting by Alan Dingman. Author photo taken at the point where the pioneers landed in Marietta on the Ohio River by William McCullough. Settlement painting for paste downs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY. McCullough's last publication. Secure ship w/track #. 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 pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping 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. 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., Simon and Schuster, 2019, 5<

2019, ISBN: 9781501168680

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. 331 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. "Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who beg… Mehr…

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. 331 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. "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." - Publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Fine/Fine., Simon & Schuster, 2019, 5<