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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... marry and was buying clothes and dress . goods intended for his bride and himself . Thomas Lincoln was in love and ... married when Nancy was born it seemed that her husband either died and she became a widow or he lived and stayed on ...
... marriage between himself and Lucy Hanks. On this same day Lucy Hanks, one of the few women of the time and locality who could read and write, wrote a certificate: I do sertify that I am of age and give my approbation freely for henry ...
... married by the Baptist preacher, the Reverend John Bailey. Lucy Hanks Sparrow proved herself a woman of strengths ... marriage bond, below his name writing “garden,” meaning guardian. The six Negro slaves owned by Richard Berry were busy ...
... married young, and had a baby of my own, and I had helped mother who was quite famous as a granny woman. It was Saturday afternoon when Tom Lincoln sent over and asked me to come. They sent for Nancy's two aunts, Mis' Betsy Sparrow and ...
... married one Levi Hall. The Sparrows were to live in the Lincoln pole shed till they could locate land and settle. Hardly a year had passed, however, when Tom and Betsy Sparrow were taken down with the “milk sick,” beginning with a ...