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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... 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 veteran who ...
... passed and Lucy Hanks and her way of living pleased Henry Sparrow. He wanted her for a life companion and, having their license that was issued April 26, 1790, they were, on April 3, 1791, married by the Baptist preacher, the Reverend ...
... passed the little one into Dennis' arms, said, “Be keerful, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen.” Dennis swung the baby back and forth, keeping up a chatter about how tickled he was to have a new cousin to play with. The ...
... passed, however, when Tom and Betsy Sparrow were taken down with the “milk sick,” beginning with a whitish coat on the tongue, resulting, it was supposed, from cows eating white snakeroot or other growths that poisoned their milk. Tom ...
... slave were on the streets. Gangs of chained slaves passed, headed for cotton plantations of a thousand and more acres. Women wearing bright slippers and flashy gowns; Creoles with dusks of eyes; quadroons and octoroons.