Pioneers All
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 1982
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 1982
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Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : 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 : John Bliss
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1410940764
Offers insight into the pioneer children's daily life and provides profiles of real migrant children and their later successes.
Author : Marie Gorsline
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780394839059
Depicts the hardships of the pioneers as they made their way westward from Missouri across the prairie and over the mountains to the Pacific coast.
Author : Caroline Emerson
Publisher : Christian Liberty Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2005-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781932971514
American Pioneers & Patriots will allow your 3rd and 4th grade students to explore America's past through the fictional accounts of typical pioneer families. Young patriots of today will gain an appreciation of the courage it took to build this great nation of ours!
Author : Most Rev. Philip J. Furlong
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1505102979
Famous 5th-8th grade Catholic American History text with Study Questions & Activities. Picking up where "The Old World and America" left off, this text takes students from the early exploration of America to the Modern Age. Great for both homeschoolers and Catholic schools!
Author : Michael Henderson
Publisher : UADY
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565490345
In All Her Paths Are Peace, Michael Henderson portrays maverick women whose daring acts have made a difference. He relates their global and gripping stories, depicting the practical yet often risky steps each woman took to resolve the conflict facing her. These innovators come from diverse lifestyles, but as they choose their separate paths, they all light the way to peace.
Author : Larry Allen Denham
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1440199361
PIONEERS is a gymnastics fable about living each day like it's your last! Patrick Goodman is the captain of the Pioneer Gymnastics team and the best gymnast that Pioneer has ever produced; however, it will take much more from the Kennedy High senior if he is going to get his Pioneer team to Coach Jim Lowerys goal of becoming National Team Champions. Although his team has experience, it will require a leap of faith from Patrick and his teammates to raise their gymnastics to the next level in his final season as a Pioneer. Chris McClure doesnt quite fit the Pioneer mold. Since moving to Knoxville from California, he has found a difficult time fitting in with his new teammates. However, Chris has what every gymnast wants; talent, courage, and a knack for living on the edge. But, Chris also has a dark secret, one that could jeopardize the success of the Pioneers. Within the walls of Pioneer Gymnastics, seven young men shed blood, sweat, and tears, to follow their coach and their dreams as they risk their necks on a daily basis in an attempt to become the first gymnastics team from Tennessee to be crowned national champions. Although there are many roadblocks in their way, their greatest obstacles lie within themselves.
Author : Walt Whitman
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 1892
Category : American poetry
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Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2024-07-15
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ISBN : 9181080794
When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.