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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... miles north of Elizabethtown, the county seat of Hardin County. In March 1805 he was one of four “patrollers” appointed in Hardin County to seize suspicious white characters or Negro slaves roving without permits . In March 1806 he was ...
... miles southeast of Elizabethtown, he paid Isaac Bush $200 in cash and took on a small obligation due a former titleholder. This in 1808 made Tom Lincoln owner of 5861⁄2 acres of land, along with two lots in Elizabethtown and some ...
... miles up the road to where the Sparrows, Tom and Betsy, lived. Dennis Hanks, the nine-year-old boy adopted by the Sparrows, met Tom at the door. In his slow way of talking Tom Lincoln told them, “Nancy's got a boy baby.” A half-sheepish ...
... miles northeast to a 2 30 - acre 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 ...
... miles a day Sarah and Abe walked when school kept and they were not needed at home. In a log schoolhouse with a dirt floor and one door, seated on puncheon benches with no backs, they learned the alphabet A to Z and numbers one to ten ...