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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... brought home nuts and wild fruits , watched sometimes in the excitement of their father smoking out a bee tree for the honey . One drawback was water supply . Abe or Sarah had to walk nearly a mile to fetch spring water . Tom dug ...
... brought into the Lincoln clearing their good Kentucky neighbors Tom and Betsy Sparrow and the odd quizzical 17-year-old Dennis Friend Hanks. For some years Dennis would be a chum of Abe's and on occasion would make free to say, “I am ...
... a wild prank hid and leaped out onto Abe's back to give him a scare in a lonely timber . Pulling her hands against his shoulders and pressing her knees against his back , she brought him down to the ground . His ax blade cut her ankle.
... brought by the members of the church . The Sabbath was not only a day for religious meetings . After the sermon , the members , who rode horses many miles to the meetinghouse , talked about crops , weather , births and deaths , the ...
... brought a neighborhood scare. Tom's farm wasn't paying well and John Hanks was writing letters about rich land and better crops. After paying for 80 acres at $2.00 an acre and improving it 14 years, Tom sold the land to Charles Grigsby ...