Very quickly, the male settlers put down roots. "Forth to the Wilderness" describes the initial foray into the West and the establishment of the settlement of Marietta which lay near both the Ohio and the Muskingam Rivers. "The Ohio Country" introduces the Reverend Mannaseh Cutler and General Rufus Putnam, whose lobbying efforts and strategizing led to the establishment of the Northwest Ordinance which allowed for the creation of a state west of the Ohio River. The book is divided into ten chapters, each of which addresses a period of time or a specific subject in relation to the settlement, moving in a general chronological order through the history of the state.
He employs a vast array of primary sources in order to depict the changing lives and the personal intentions of several key figures whose actions gave rise to American prosperity and westward expansion. The Pioneers by David McCullough traces the development of the first Ohio settlement beginning in the 1780s through to the mid-nineteenth century. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: McCullough, David.
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