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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... 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 fall to the ground, just after the boys had heard a rifle shot and ...
... Rivers to New Orleans , earning 16 pounds in gold and a credit of 13 pounds in gold . Account books of the store had him occasionally buying " two twists of tobacco , " one pound for 38 cents , and one pint of whisky for 21 cents . And ...
... 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 ever-winding grapevines, thin ...
... River , they were heading west for the $ 2.00 - an - acre Government land . Along pikes , roads and trails heading west were broken wagon wheels with grass growing up over the spokes and hubs , and nearby perhaps a rusty skillet and the ...
... River , to the house of the widow Sarah Bush Johnston . They said he argued straight - out : " I have no wife and you no husband . I came a - purpose to marry you . I knowed you from a gal and you knowed me from a boy . I've no time to ...