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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... called to him, that country Boone talked about, where land was 40 cents an acre. Abraham Lincoln sold his farm; they packed their belongings and joined a party heading down the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap and up north and ...
... 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 into life in Virginia about 1784. The name of the child's father seems to have ...
... called " the big field ” of seven acres . “ I dropped the pumpkin seed . I dropped two seeds every other hill and every other row . The next Sunday morning there came a big rain in the hills , it did not rain a drop in the valley but ...
... called a “blab school”; the pupils before reciting read their lessons out loud to themselves to show they were busy studying. Their first teacher was Zachariah Riney, a Catholic, and the second one, Cabel Hazel, a former tavernkeeper ...
... called for her children, and spoke to them her last dim choking words. Death came October 5, 1818, the banners of autumn flaming their crimsons over tall oaks and quiet maples. On a bed of poles cleared to the corner of the cabin, the ...