The Spirit of Pioneering by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book, Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] Of all the chapters in Eric Sloane’s book, his fifth chapter on pioneering is the most melancholy. He reflects on the hardships of life in the 18th and 19th centuries, the strange and spectacular ways people unrooted themselves to travel for months on end to find new homes in uncharted land and make new homes for th...
