The Pioneers : The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (CD-Audio)

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For me, David McCullough is an acquired taste. His accounts of American history and its players don't immediately do justice to this book's subtitle, "The Heroic Story of Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West." I think it's the use, or misuse, of the word "heroic." These figures aren't Lin...

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Author David McCullough stands securely as one of our nation's great historians. His prior well-received works have focused upon American military and political history. This exposition tells how the American ideal settled into what was then known as the Northwest Territory. McCullough does so by...

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I originally hail from Nebraska, specifically from the south-central region of the state, never more than 30 minutes from the Platte River where nearly all the great trails of the westward pioneers (e.g., the Mormon Trail and the Oregon Trail) converged, following a route very similar to Intersta...

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I enjoy McCullough's readable United States histories. This volume, focusing on settlement of the Northwest Territory and specifically of Marietta, Ohio, was no exception. McCullough knows how to tell the story in an engaging manner, incorporating discoveries from his research. The book focused p...

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Closely following the end of the American Revolutionary War, a group of hardy and well-educated veterans set out to settle the Northwest Territory ceded to the US at the end of the war. In The Pioneers, David McCullough retells their story from the signing of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to th...