By S.P. Hildreth. Softbound, 445 pages, 6" x 9". A companion book to Pioneer History (#701668). Under the leadership of Rufus Putnam, 48 men departed New England, traveling down the Younghiogheny River to the Monongehela and then down the Ohio River to their destination at the mouth of the Muskingum River. Here these pioneers established the first settlement in the territory and named it Marietta. This book contains the true stories of these great men and other pioneers who withstood Indian warfare, starvation, sickness, death and deprivation to establish themselves in the wilderness of the early American frontier.