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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... hands and head clamped between two grooved planks; if a prisoner was dead drunk he was laid on his back with his feet fastened in the stocks till he was sober. In 1803 Thomas Lincoln for “the sum of 118 pounds in hand paid” bought a 238 ...
... hands as it came down , let it snuggle to her breast and feed , while she asked , “ Here we come- where from ? " If Lucy was married when Nancy was born it seemed that her husband either died and she became a widow or he lived and ...
... hand this day April 26th 1790 day Lucey Hanks Undersigned as witnesses were Robert Mitchell and John Berry, perhaps the same John Berry who had served on the jury that had indicted one Lucy Hanks. In the following May the Mercer County ...
... tired, and he stood there with that sort of hang- dog look that a man has, sort of guilty like, but mighty proud, and he says to me, 'Are you sure she's all right, Mis' Walters?' And Nancy kind of stuck out her hand and reached.
The Prairie Years Carl Sandburg. And Nancy kind of stuck out her hand and reached for his , and said , ' Yes , Tom , I ... hands from using a hoe handle on rows of beans , onions , com , potatoes . He ducked out of the way of the heels of ...