Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time, Vol. 1 of 2 The Task Before Lincoln - Story of a Woman near Elizabethtown - Two Removals Westward - The Blight of Slavery - The Hammering Out of Character - The Great Westward Movement - How Homes were made - The Pigeon Creek Settlement - The Destruction of Forests - Customs - Manner of Living, and habits; Death in Pigeon Creek Settlement - Abe loses his Mother - Abe´s Journey of Sixty Miles for a Minister - The Dreary Winter- The Student - His Early Books - Marriage of Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush Johnston - Happier Days, with Home Comfort and Care - Running a Ferry-boat - More Study - The First Trip Down the Mississippi - The Slave-market of New Orleans - Journey to Illinois - "Neutral Ground" - "The Cold Winter" - Rail-splitting; Springfield-The Freeze of December 20. 1836 - Weedman´s Deer Park - "Internal Improvements" - Navigation of the Sangamon - Proposed Trip to New Orleans - Passing the Dam near New Salem - The New Orleans Slave-market again - Thomas Lincoln´s Death - New Salem selected as a Home - The Black Hawk War - Abe´s Electiou as Captain - Experience in the Field - Stillman´s Run - Black Hawk - Mr. Lincoln´s Description of his Military Experience - Clerking for Mr. Offut; Forming of Character - "Honest Abe" - Trials of Strength - Navigation of the Sangamon - Newton Graham - Kirkhatn´s Grammar - Candidate for the Legislature - New Acquaintances and Future Friends - Political Beliefs - Defeat - "A Country Store" in New Salem: A Losing Venture - Law-reading in the Office of Logan and Stuart - The Bible. Blackstone, Coke, Chitty, Greenleaf, Story, Kent, and Others for Three Years´ Drill, until. "You know as much about It as we do" - A Favorite Advocate all over Central Illinois, alongside Douglas and Others About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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