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Book Review – The Pioneers By David McCullough

Written by The Birdfreak Teamon July 26, 2019July 26, 2019

David McCullough is a brilliant historian whose books have earned many awards including two Pulitzer Prizes (Truman and John Adams) and two National Book Awards (The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback). So it was with much anticipation when I got my hands on his latest book, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of

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