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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... horse and they rode away on the red clay road along the timber trails to Elizabethtown to make a home in a cabin close to the county courthouse . At Bleakley & Montgomery's , Tom bought a half set of knives and forks , a half - dozen ...
... horses. In 1814, however, because of a flaw in title he sold his Mill Creek 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 ...
... horses and their most needed household goods, made their breakaway from Kentucky, moving north and crossing the Ohio River into land then Perry County, later Spencer County, Indiana. They traveled a wild raw country, rolling land with ...
... horses and men . They had stuck it out and lost . A saying , " The cowards never started and the weak ones died by the way , " was unfair to the strong ones who died by the way of sudden maladies or long rains , windstorms , howling ...
... 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 and out of his senses just as he yelled , " Git ...