Why We Love LincolnOuting Publishing Company, 1909 - 168 pages |
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... Sangamon River , five miles from Decatur , in Macon County . All promptly set to work . A clearing was made , trees felled , and a cabin built . ham and his cousin , John Hanks , ploughed fifteen acres of sod and split rails enough to ...
... Sangamon River , five miles from Decatur , in Macon County . All promptly set to work . A clearing was made , trees felled , and a cabin built . ham and his cousin , John Hanks , ploughed fifteen acres of sod and split rails enough to ...
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... Sangamon River — a village that has long since vanished - and became clerk in a log - house general store opened by Offut , who was a restless com- mercial adventurer . Lincoln and an assis- tant slept in 32 WHY WE LOVE LINCOLN.
... Sangamon River — a village that has long since vanished - and became clerk in a log - house general store opened by Offut , who was a restless com- mercial adventurer . Lincoln and an assis- tant slept in 32 WHY WE LOVE LINCOLN.
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... Sangamon River , and had not the imagination of that country taken fire as the vessel reached Springfield ? Railroads , canals , steamboats ! And no rec- ognition yet of the issue of disunion that was to shake the continent and drench ...
... Sangamon River , and had not the imagination of that country taken fire as the vessel reached Springfield ? Railroads , canals , steamboats ! And no rec- ognition yet of the issue of disunion that was to shake the continent and drench ...
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