Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie YearsThis definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up on the Indiana prairie and the president who held the country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War. Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg’s biographywas originally published as a monumental, six-volume study. The author later distilled the work down to this single-volume edition that is considered by many to be his greatest work of nonfiction. |
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... Hanks , the bride - to - be , was a daughter of Lucy Hanks and was sometimes called Nancy Sparrow as though she was an adopted daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Sparrow whose house was her home . Lucy Hanks had welcomed her child Nancy ...
... Hanks. On this same day Lucy Hanks, one of the few women of the time and locality who could read and write, wrote a certificate: I do sertify that I am of age and give my approbation freely for henry Sparrow to git out Lisons this or ...
... Hanks and her way of living pleased Henry Sparrow. He wanted her for a life companion and, having their license that was issued April 26, 1790, they were, on April 3, 1791, married by the Baptist preacher, the Reverend John Bailey. Lucy ...
... Hanks had been joined together in the holy estate of matrimony " agreeable to the rites and ceremonies of the Methodist Episcopal Church . " Then came " the infare . " One who was there remembered , " We had bear meat , venison , wild ...
... Hanks. The summer stars that year shook out pain and warning, strange and bittersweet laughters, for Nancy Hanks. The same year saw Tom Lincoln's family moved to his land on the South Fork of Nolin Creek, about two and a half miles from ...