Download or read book Pioneer History written by Samuel Prescott Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pioneers written by David McCullough and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal)—the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would 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.

Download or read book A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania written by John G. White and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Pioneer written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Original Contributions to the American Pioneer written by Samuel Prescott Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Pioneer written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Pioneer written by John S. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio written by Samuel Prescott Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographical and historical memoirs of the early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio with narratives of incidents and occurrences in 1775 To which is annexed A Journal of occurences which happened in the circles of the Author s Personal Observation in the detachment commanded by Col B Arnold at Cambridge Mass in 1775 by Colonel R J Meigs written by Samuel Prescott HILDRETH and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Pioneer Outline History of Northwestern Pennsylvania written by William James McKnight and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pioneer Trails West written by Western Writers of America and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Nineteen veteran authors, members of the Western Writers of America all, have been collected in this volume of essays detailing the travails and triumphs of the whites who emigrated rest along the Pioneer Trails.

Download or read book Pioneer History of Medina County written by Nira B. Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Tama County Iowa written by J. R. Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journals and Letters of Major John Owen Pioneer of the Northwest 1850 1871 written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen was an early resident of the Bitterroot Valley and served at agent to the Indians of Western Montana in the 1860's. Includes many short references to Flathead and Kootenai Indians with information on their enemies, treaties, and removals from aborignal territories.

Download or read book Transactions of the Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association written by Oregon Pioneer Association. Reunion and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transactions of the Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association written by Oregon Pioneer Association and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Green River of Kentucky written by Helen Bartter Crocker and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting a wide east-west swath from the Appalachian foothills to the heart of the western Kentucky coalfields, the Green River valley extends from below the Tennessee border in the south to the Ohio River in the north. The Green River of Kentucky presents a picture of the unity and diversity of the people living in the Green River valley. Helen Bartter Crocker finds that each generation of its people approached the river in a distinctive way. Early settlers used the river simply as it was—crooked and narrow with an unpredictable water flow, and navigable only under high-water conditions. The sons of these pioneers were interested in bringing steamboats to the valley; until they succeeded in persuading the state legislature to improve the Green River and its tributary, the Barren, by a series of locks and dams, however, volunteers would work—often up to their necks in water—until they cleared the river sufficiently to allow steamers to reach Bowling Green at high water. When the locks and dams were reopened following the Civil War, a local private corporation gained a near-monopoly of the river trade. Public outcry against this private ownership caused the federal government to take control, and through the Corps of Engineers, to undertake extensive river improvements. After the Great Depression, when trade was almost at a standstill, additional federal funds were appropriated for flood-control dams in the upper river and modern locks in the lower river to harness the valley's industrial potential. These opened up coal barging and recreational facilities, which ensured the future economic well being of the Green River valley.