--- product_id: 298791802 title: "The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West" price: "22316CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/298791802-the-pioneers-the-heroic-story-of-the-settlers-who-brought store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Top #500 in History & Military 4.6⭐ from 4,854 reviews Primary source diaries & letters The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West **Price:** 22316CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the untold saga of America’s bold frontier pioneers! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West - **How much does it cost?** 22316CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/298791802-the-pioneers-the-heroic-story-of-the-settlers-who-brought) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Highly Rated & Trusted:** 4.6-star average from thousands of readers confirms its impact and quality. - • **Authentic Pioneer Voices:** Rare diaries and letters bring history to life with firsthand accounts. - • **Award-Winning Storytelling:** David McCullough’s signature narrative energy makes history engaging and vivid. - • **Deeply Researched & Insightful:** Meticulously researched with fresh perspectives on early American settlers. - • **Groundbreaking Historical Context:** Explores the Northwest Ordinance’s revolutionary ideals: freedom, education, and anti-slavery. ## Overview The Pioneers by David McCullough chronicles the heroic journey of Revolutionary War veterans who settled the Northwest Territory, highlighting groundbreaking ideals like religious freedom and education. Drawing from rare diaries and letters, this highly rated historical narrative offers an immersive, well-researched look at the birth of the American West. ## Description 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. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy. Review: Awesome book. - Well written, researched, entertaining and engaging book. David McCullough delivers again. Review: Interesting book - Gives us a really good insight into what the lives of the early pioneers was like, with plenty of direct evidence obtained from letters and correspondence of the people who were actually there. ## Features - Item Category: Abis Book - Item Trademark: SIMON & SCHUSTER - Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #112,121 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #498 in History of the Americas #741 in Military History #5,019 in Social Sciences | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 4,854 Reviews | ## Images ![The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/917P8ZZwoHL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome book. *by N***L on 22 September 2025* Well written, researched, entertaining and engaging book. David McCullough delivers again. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting book *by M***R on 31 March 2023* Gives us a really good insight into what the lives of the early pioneers was like, with plenty of direct evidence obtained from letters and correspondence of the people who were actually there. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Expansive endeavour *by B***A on 20 July 2020* Whilst this is a story which focuses on five prime actors, the breath of what David McCullough describes is staggering. To put some perspective on the narrative, the American War of Independence, also known as the American Revolutionary War, which spanned the period from 19 April 1775, until the Treaty of Paris concluded the war on 3 September 1783, with the defeat of Britain and loss of its thirteen eastern seaboard colonies, together with what was known as the Northwest Territory, which is to say the area west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mississippi River, north of the Ohio River to the border with contemporary British Canada. It was a crushing blow for Britain, which some historians consider to be the end of the first British Empire. The Northwest Territory was a vast, lush wilderness, largely uninhabited land mass of some 260,000 square miles (670,000 square kilometres), home to approximately 45,000 indigenous Indian tribes and around 4,000 traders, the latter a mix of Canadian and British subjects. In the fullness of time this new land mass, almost one-third the total area of America would become the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. However, before all of that could take place, it would be the actions of a Massachusetts minister, Reverend Manasseh Cutler, co-founder of the Ohio Company of Associates who would, with Rufus Putnam, Ephraim Cutler (Manasseh oldest son), Joseph Barker House and Samuel Prescott Hildreth encourage a small group of intrepid pioneers to fulfil the intentions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 by making the long and perilous journey up the Ohio River to found the first settlement on the river, which they named Marietta. The story David McCullough so skilfully tells is one of adventure, daring, sadness and injustice, certainly from the standpoint of the indigenous Americans. Notwithstanding the moral issues - and they are significant - this is a narrative that adds new understanding of how Americans populated the Northwest Territory, how the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banned slavery within the territory, advanced public school education and perhaps above all else was a difficult but nonetheless great endeavour. This is a book which can engender a feeling of being part of this movement west. 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