Format:
Book
Author:
McCullough, David G., author.
Title:
The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west / David McCullough.
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Description:
331 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves divided into two sections of 21 and 25 plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Summary:
"Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated America's highest ideals"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Pioneers -- Ohio River Valley -- Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Ohio River Valley -- History -- To 1795.
Notes:
"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-314) and index.
Contents:
The Ohio country -- Forth to the wilderness -- Difficult times -- Havoc -- A new era commences -- The Burr conspiracy -- Adversities aplenty -- The cause of education -- The travelers -- Journey's end.
LCCN:
2018057066
ISBN:
1501168681
9781501168680
Other Number:
1079400726
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
390537
Call Number:
977 MCC 2019
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
4
# System items in:
4