#1610: New York Times Bestselling Author David McCullough’s “The Pioneers”

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May 28 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times Bestselling author, and master historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story with his latest, “The Pioneers.” In it he tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers.

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