Historical Fiction
McCullough tells the story through 5 major characters: Cutler & Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and 2 other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. With clarity and incisiveness, [McCullough] details the experience of a brave broad-minded band of people who crossed raging rivers, chopped down forests, plowed miles of land, suffered incalculable hardships, & braved a lonely frontier to forge a new American ideal.
