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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... north and west into Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln located on the Green River, where he filed claims for more than 2,000 acres. One day about two years later, he was working in a field with his three sons, and they saw him in a spasm of pain ...
... north of Elizabethtown, the county seat of Hardin County. In March 1805 he was one of four “patrollers” appointed in Hardin County to seize suspicious white characters or Negro slaves roving without permits . In March 1806 he was hired by.
... north , peddlers with tinware and notions , gangs of slaves or " kaffles " moving on foot ahead of an overseer or slave trader on horseback , and sometimes in dandy carriages congressmen or legislative members going to sessions at ...
... north and crossing the Ohio River into land then Perry County, later Spencer County, Indiana. They traveled a wild raw country, rolling land with trees everywhere, tall oaks and elms, maples, birches, dogwood, underbrush tied down by ...
... north bank of the Sangamon River, about ten miles southwest of Decatur, land joining timber and prairie. John Hanks had already cut the logs for their cabin which soon was finished. They built a smokehouse and barn, cleared some 15 ...