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... Mississippi River , walked the docks of New Orleans , spent weeks in Springfield , Petersburg , New Salem ... R. Barrett loaned me an almost complete file of the New York Herald covering a critical period when that newspaper had at ...
... Mississippi River , walked the docks of New Orleans , spent weeks in Springfield , Petersburg , New Salem ... R. Barrett loaned me an almost complete file of the New York Herald covering a critical period when that newspaper had at ...
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... Mississippi River that year had come the first steamboat to curve into the Ohio River and land passengers at Louisville . The moon had seen the first steamboat leave Pittsburgh and tie up at New Orleans . New wheels , wagons , were ...
... Mississippi River that year had come the first steamboat to curve into the Ohio River and land passengers at Louisville . The moon had seen the first steamboat leave Pittsburgh and tie up at New Orleans . New wheels , wagons , were ...
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... river , never taking them to the Kentucky shore . And the Dill brothers , though sore and claiming the defendant Lincoln had wronged them , did not go so far as to ... RIVER LIFE 49 the Mississippi River , for cotton 48 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... river , never taking them to the Kentucky shore . And the Dill brothers , though sore and claiming the defendant Lincoln had wronged them , did not go so far as to ... RIVER LIFE 49 the Mississippi River , for cotton 48 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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The Prairie Years Carl Sandburg. WILD RIVER LIFE 49 the Mississippi River , for cotton , tobacco , and sugar . Young Abe was set to work on a flatboat ; he cut the oaks for a double bottom of stout planks , and a deck shelter , two pairs ...
The Prairie Years Carl Sandburg. WILD RIVER LIFE 49 the Mississippi River , for cotton , tobacco , and sugar . Young Abe was set to work on a flatboat ; he cut the oaks for a double bottom of stout planks , and a deck shelter , two pairs ...
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... Mississippi , the young man Abraham Lincoln took in many things with his eyes that saw and his ears that heard and remembered . A Virginia planter named Ed- ward Coles had quit Virginia and come down the Ohio River with his slaves ...
... Mississippi , the young man Abraham Lincoln took in many things with his eyes that saw and his ears that heard and remembered . A Virginia planter named Ed- ward Coles had quit Virginia and come down the Ohio River with his slaves ...
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Volume 1 Carl Sandburg No preview available - 1954 |
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