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Big fan of McCullough but found this book to be a let down. Instead of being called “The Pioneers,” it should be called a “A History of Marietta, Ohio.” Sound boring? It is. Beyond that, it presents a very limited overview of the history of the NW Territory and instead focuses on two generations of the Cutler family, which even after finishing the book I don’t really care about. Maybe we if you have Ohio roots, you would be enthused. Seems to me that McCullough simply got his hands on original source material from the Cutler family and decided to throw a book together about it that lazily intersperses in a very general way important historical events from the NW Territory. Solid miss this time.