Pioneers of California
Author | : Donovan Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780942087062 |
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Author | : Donovan Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780942087062 |
Author | : David McCullough |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501168681 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. 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.
Author | : Michael E. Stevens |
Publisher | : Wisconsin Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 087020890X |
From the mid-1830s through the 1850s, more than a half million people settled in Wisconsin. While traveling in ships and wagons, establishing homes, and forming new communities, these men, women, and children recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and newspaper articles. In their own words, they revealed their fears, joys, frustrations, and hopes for life in this new place. The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin provides a unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of these early settlers, as they describe what it felt like to be a teenager in a wagon heading west or an isolated young wife living far from her friends and family. Woven together with context provided by historian Michael E. Stevens, these first-person accounts form a fascinating narrative that deepens our ability to understand and empathize with Wisconsin’s early pioneers.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Cincinnati (Ohio) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Isaac J. Finley |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2023-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3382117355 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author | : Samuel Prescott Hildreth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Athens Co., Ohio |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Isaac J. Finley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Ohio |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathleen Ernst |
Publisher | : Wisconsin Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0870207148 |
ASettler's Year provides a rare colorful glimpse into the hard and hearty lives of the early immigrants dreaming of, searching for, and creating new homes in the upper Midwest, a history captured in photographs taken by Loyd Heath at the Old World Wisconsin living history museum and poignant essays by historian and top-selling historical fiction author Kathleen Ernst.
Author | : William Monroe Cockrum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Monroe Cockrum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Indiana |
ISBN | : |