Matthew Chisholm’s Reviews > The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West > Status Update

Continues to be more or less an imperial story with some sprinkles of native and female voices. McCullough is gifted in telling a story as it happens on the ground, but he’s not very clever with interpretation of his source methodology.

A top down look at the first pioneers that set West to explore the would-be imperial American frontier land grab. Refreshing revision to the idea that Lewis and Clark were first. Still a bit too reliant on rich, white men’s stories. I’m still intrigued so far; mostly because I feel like I should have been alive in the 1780s.