American Heritage History of the Pioneer Spirit, by Richard M. Ketchum
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America's story is made up of many elements, but through it have coursed two main streams that have nourished and carried a people forward to a destiny that was beyond all imagining when the story began. One of these is an idea that goes back to the rim of recorded time. It was first a dim, gnawing hope that the future lay in a magic land off to the west. Once that land was found, it drew people to it like a magnet. It is easy to say that it was gold or precious stones or land that led them on, for it was all of these. Yet, it was more - and here was the second great stream of American history. There was something that literally drove people westward, goading them across the endless mountains, through steep passes, across searing plains and desert into the face of terrors known and those unguessed. It was vision. It was courage. It was, at times, the sheer joy of overcoming fantastic obstacles. And it was also the conviction that what they were doing was different from anything that had happened before, that nothing would ever be quite the same again, and that the world would be a better place for what they had accomplished. "Eastward I go only by force," Henry David Thoreau said, "but westward I go free." The sleep of 100 centuries was stirred up in that surge toward the sunset, for out of it emerged not only a new people and a new nation but a force that changed the globe.
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- Published on: 2015-10-11
- Released on: 2015-10-11
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful. history of the spirit that made America great By Mageditor I bought this book hoping to read about the Old West – wagon trains, Indian conflict, gunslingers, sodbusters, and hardworking frontier women. There’s several chapters of that in this book, written by famed Western writer Alvin Josephy, Jr.But I discovered the book aims to paint a much bigger picture of the pioneering spirit that created America – from Columbus and the brave (and cruel) conquistadors all the way to Lee de Forest, one of the “last of the lone wolves of technology,” helping to bring about out modern world by filing patents for the vacuum tube and hundreds of other inventions.“Every country needs a frontier,” says lead author, Francis Russell. “The sense of wonder, freedom, and adventure must somehow be constantly fed anew.” Russell then goes in search of the new spirit that began with the Renaissance, Marc Polo, and the geographer Toscanelli, and inspired Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, Magellan, Pizarro, Cortes, Verrazano, de Soto, Coronado, Cartier, Champlain, and other early explorers. Like the other chapters in the book, this one starts with an overview and then provides biographical vignettes of some of the key figures and how their “pioneer spirit” changed the world.There is a fascinating section on the English sailor David Ingram, who in 1568 was shipwrecked in Mexico and walked 3,000 miles to St. John in New Brunswick with two companions. His account of that extraordinary journey across North America, with its soil that was “most excellent, fertile and pleasant,” influenced the English to send settlers to America.The second chapter focuses on the beginnings of English settlement in the New World, and the advantages they had over Spain and France, which after all were much larger and more powerful nations at the time. The chapter looks at Drake, Raleigh, Jamestown, the Pilgrims, the Dutch in New Amsterdam, William Penn, other early settlers, and the start of wars with the Indians. There is a particularly interesting profile of the larger-than-life figure of John Smith, his adventures, and whether he was saved by Pocahontas.The next two chapters, also by Francis Russell, cover early English expansion, the French and Indian War, and the Revolution, and men of the backcountry like Daniel Boone, John Sevier, the “greatest of the Indian fighters” and founder of Tennessee, Robert Rogers, and other “frontiersmen-soldiers of great strength and endurance, casual, brave, aggressive.” It continues with profiles of Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, deWitt Clinton, and other early Americans.The central part of the book, by the wonderful Western writer Alvin Josephy, covers the mountain men “like the hunters, trappers, and traders, scouts and Indian fighters” who deserve “a special place of honor” in the story of the West. There are sections on Capt John Gray in the Columbia, who discovered a great river and named it for his ship, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, General William Ashley, Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, James Ohio Pattie, John Bidwell, Capt Benjamin Bonneville, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, John Sutter, and Brigham Young.About the Americans, a European writer said in 1791 that “no danger, no distance, no obstacle detains them.” The final four chapters of the book cover the Indian wars, Generals Custer, Crook, and Howard, Charles Goodnight, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, the building of the railroads, cattle drives, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Edison, Bell, and Ford.“Go ahead” should be the motto of America, said the English writer Charles Mackay. That is also the theme of this book.The only criticism I had was the book’s lack of coverage of the Indian point of view, but I gave it five stars because there was so much other great material here.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Sorry, this one doesn't do it for me By J. Harshbarger This is an anthology and as such is very disjointed. Some things are never explained, some are explained two or three different times,, and since different people wrote the different chapters some of the information just flat-out disputes other things we are told. If you're interested in the pioneers, there are many better books than this one.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Interesting American history By Dave Use of multiple authors leads to rich range of viewpoints while effective editing causes a unified work. My wife and I both enjoyed this book very much and highly recommend it to those interested in American history.
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