1 edition of Lincoln, the young rail-splitter found in the catalog.
Published
1922
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Excerpt from Association men, volume XLVII, number six, February 1922.
| Statement | by William E. Barton |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | E457.32 .B17 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | pages 244-245 : |
| Number of Pages | 245 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL25770153M |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 43579852 |
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Abraham Lincoln was born in in a log cabin in LaRue County, Kentucky. His family later moved to Indiana, then to Illinois. As a young man living in Decatur, Illinois, Abe Lincoln split rails to build a fence on his family’s farm. When he ran for president in , people called him “Abe Lincoln the Rail Splitter.”. "Ted Widmer's Lincoln On the Verge is an impressively vivid and intimate portrait of Abraham Lincoln on his historic train journey from Illinois to Washington D.C. (where he was sworn-in as America's 16th president). With a deft blend of textured storytelling and fresh research Widmer recounts the widespread uncertainty and fear that Released on: Ap
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Gord rated it really liked it Kathie H rated it it was amazing Bonnie Ferguson rated it /5. Abraham Lincoln stands, right, using a split rail to position the globe. Johnson warns, "Take it quietly Uncle Abe and I will draw it closwer than ever." While Lincoln commends him, "A few more stitches Andy and the good old Union will be mended." Contributor Names Baker, Joseph E.
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Lincoln's father's. Railsplitter, the seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Maurice Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Manning, who writes each piece in Lincoln's persona, provides a lasting reflection on how poetry guided and shaped the President's mind while leading a divided nation/5.
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Lincoln book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Gone is the stereotypical self-educated, rail splitter who was born in a log cabin he helped his father build, replaced by an adroit, take-no-prisoners political creature, capable of doing the right things in the most efficient (yet sometimes illegal) ways /5.
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L. G. Ferris of Abraham Lincoln as a young man at work splitting rails for a fence. Curatorship of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection is a joint venture between the Indiana State.Knowledge Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States largely because he was a rail-splitter.
At the time he was elected, he had not split a rail for nearly thirty years. His rail-splitting had been done when he was a young man; at a time when there was no way for him to know it would one day help make him President.The Paperback of the Abraham Lincoln, the backwoods boy: or, How a young rail-splitter became preside by Jr Horatio Alger at Barnes & Noble.
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