They didn’t have an easy life…

Book review:

The Pioneers:

The Heroic Story of the Settlers

Who Brought the American Ideal West

by David McCullough (1933-2022)

Pulitzer Prize winner

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019

330 pages

This is bona fide David McCullough: endlessly researched, written in profoundly erudite prose, and honestly interesting to a wide range of readers.

The Pioneers tells you as much as (if not more than) you could ever care to know about the hardy folks who founded Marietta, Ohio, in the late 18th century, while George Washington was figuring out how to be our first president.

They didn’t have an easy life. They worked hard to keep slavery out of the Northwest Territory. They weren’t worried much about displacing the Native Americans who had lived in that region for thousands of years. They believed that they were brave and dedicated to making a good life, for themselves and their children.

They did a decent job, really. Read all about it, or read as much of it as you care to.

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Book review: The Bartender’s Tale

Ivan Doig’s story, I mostly loved it…

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