6/21/2023 0 Comments The pioneers by mccullough![]() ![]() Letters, diaries, journals and other primary sources give us an intimate portrait of the community. In his absorbing new book, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, bestselling author and most readable of historians David McCullough brings to life the story of the courageous men and women who dealt with many hard realities to found the city that became Marietta, Ohio. From this meeting, the Ohio Company was formed, coupling the group’s idealism with land speculation. ![]() The conditions of this plan would allow freedom of religion and education but wouldn’t allow slavery. ![]() Veterans would be provided property in the Ohio country as payment for their military services. The men there devised an ambitious plan to guarantee what would later be known as the American way of life. It began taking shape on March 1, 1786, when Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam convened a meeting at the Bunch-of-Grapes tavern in Boston. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was one of the most important acts of Congress in our history and crucial to an orderly settlement of the American West. ![]()
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