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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... meetings . After the sermon , the members , who rode horses many miles to the meetinghouse , talked about crops , weather , births and deaths , the growing settlements , letters just come , politics , Indians and land titles . Young ...
... meeting in front of Renshaw's store in Decatur, Abraham stepped up and advocated improvement of the Sangamon River for better navigation. Fall came and most of the Lincoln family went down with chills, fever and ague, Tom and Sarah ...
... meeting strings of flatboats and other river craft . Hanks , away from home longer than expected , left them at St. Louis . Stepping off the flatboat at New Orleans , Lincoln walked nearly a mile , on flatboats , to reach shore . In New ...
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