Saltar a navegação
The Pioneers
Book

The Pioneers

The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

Simon & Schuster, 2019 mais...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Eye Opening
  • Background
  • Engaging

Recommendation

When New England pastor, lawyer and doctor Manasseh Cutler, 45, set out in 1787 for Congress in New York, he was making history: urging passage of the Northwest Ordinance, guaranteeing that the new Ohio territory – where his sons later settled – would ban slavery. By 1850, after deprivation, struggle and conflict, frontiersmen in Ohio opened the doors for many more pioneers. Historian David McCullough’s gripping, smoothly written story details the vision, endurance and eccentricities of the first pioneers. Though his account of the Native American perspective has stirred critique, McCullough set out to create a compelling pioneer narrative and in that he has greatly succeeded. 

Take-Aways

  • When pastor, doctor and lawyer Manasseh Cutler lobbied Congress in 1787, he was making history by keeping the Ohio territory free of slavery.
  • In 1786, Cutler and other Revolutionary War veterans devised a plan for the settlement of the vast Northwest Territory.
  • In 1787, the new Ohio Company sought to buy land, and the law Cutler advocated, the Northwest Ordinance, guaranteed the exclusion of slavery.

About the Author

Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Book Awards David McCullough is also a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His books include The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For and The Wright Brothers.


More on this topic

By the same author

Learners who read this summary also read

Related Channels