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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... passable , the Lincoln family and kin moved southeast a hundred miles to Coles County . Abraham had other plans and didn't go with them . He had " come of age . " Chapter 2 New Salem Days In February 1831, John Hanks.
The Prairie Years Carl Sandburg. Chapter. 2. New Salem Days In February 1831, John Hanks had made an agreement with a man named Denton Offutt, a frontier hustler big with promises and a hard drinker, that he, Abe Lincoln and John D ...
... Salem , the boat stuck on the Camron milldam , and hung with one - third of her slanted downward over the edge of the dam and filling slowly with water , while the cargo of pork barrels was sliding slowly so as to overweight one end ...
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