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1926. In this work we learn of Abraham Lincoln's babyhood and boyhood at Knob Creek Farm and on Little Pigeon Creek. We join in his games and his chores, see the things he uses and handles. We are taken to his life at Gentryville and on the Mississippi until the age of nineteen when he leaves home to make his fortune at New Salem. Illustrated.
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CARL SANDBURG (1878–1967) was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, first in 1940 for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and again in 1951 for Complete Poems. Before becoming known as a poet, he worked as a milkman, an ice harvester, a dishwasher, a salesman, a fireman, and a journalist. Among his classics are the Rootabaga Stories, which he wrote for his young daughters at the beginning of his long and distinguished literary career.
[A] readable, heroic biography” The New York Times Book Review Admirers of Mr. Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, will be glad of an opportunity to share that uniquely interesting picture of pioneer life with their children . . . confidently commended.” Saturday Review
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- PublisherKessinger Pub Co
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0766144429
- ISBN 13 9780766144422
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages228
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