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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... Months passed and there was no record of a trial of the Lucy Hanks indicted. In those months there came deeply into the life of the mother of Nancy a man named Henry Sparrow, Virginia- born, about her own age, a Revolutionary War ...
... months around the store in Gentryville they argued about which gang whipped the other. Asked by Farmer James Taylor if he could kill a hog, Abe answered, “If you will risk the hog I'll risk myself.” He put barefoot boys to wading in a ...
... months, rode an elegant steamboat up the Mississippi, the fare paid by James Gentry. Abe's wages at $8.00 a month, or what he hadn't spent out of $24, he paid over to his father, according to law and custom. After a thousand miles of ...
... month and sent them to Government timberland, where they cut down trees, got logs to Kirkpatrick's mill for planks and gunwales. Near their shanty and camp on the Sangamon River where the flatboat was shaping, the Sangamon County ...
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