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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... farm deeded to him by his father, John Lincoln, one of the many English, Scotch, Irish, German, Dutch settlers who were taking the green hills and slopes of the Shenandoah Valley and putting their plows to unbroken ground long held by ...
... farm of George Brownfield, where Tom did carpenter and farm work. Near their cabin wild crab-apple trees stood thick and flourishing with riots of bloom and odor. And the smell of wild crab-apple blossoms, and the low crying of all wild ...
... farm he had bought on Knob Creek , where the soil was a little richer and there were more neighbors . The famous Cumberland Trail , the main pike from Louisville to Nashville , ran nearby the new log cabin Tom built , and they could see ...
... farm for 18 pounds less than he had paid for it; the tract survey in one place read “west” where it should have read “east.” Another suit involved his title to the Nolin Creek farm, still another aimed to dispossess him of the Knob Creek ...
... farm a go . It was the year Abe was driving a horse at the mill . While he was putting a whiplash to the nag and calling , " Git up , you old hussy ; git up , you old hussy , " the horse let fly a fast hind foot that knocked Abe down ...