Niagara detroit biography of abraham lincoln
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Picutres and Illustrations.
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Abraham and Bathsheba (or Batsab) Lincoln sign their names to a deed in the courthouse of Rockingham County, Virginia.
One-room, one-window, dirt-floor log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky, where Lincoln was born. (Traditions as to this cabin are not thoroughly established.)
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Along Knob Creek where the boy, Abe Lincoln, grew up till he was seven years old. Here his feet knew clear streams and clean gravel. The bottom photograph shows the Old Swimming Hole.
Young Abe's homemade arithmetic.
Ox yoke carved by Lincoln; young steers yoked in this helped haul the Lincoln family across the Wabash to the new prairie home in Illinois in 1831.
Title page of Abe Lincoln's school reader in Indiana; he borrowed it from Josiah Crawford.
Log cabin the twenty-year-old Abe Lincoln helped his father build on Goose Nest Prairie in Coles County, Illinois.
Grub hoe used by Abe Lincoln at New Salem.
Doorstep of Goose Nest Prairie cabin with Lincoln bur
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CONTENTS:
1. Introdution: "Where Did All That vatten Come From?"
2. "An Affectionate Farewell"
3. The Best of the Bargain"
4. "A Letter from a Young Lady"
5. "An Ungovernable Mob"
6. "They Should Forget That They are Foreigners"
7. "So Good a President"
8. "This Immense Number of People"
9. "A Daguerrean Artist"
10. "Smitten by the Charms"
11. "The Solemn Spectacle"
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Introduction
Saturday Morning, February 16, 1861:
It was a sunny, cool and dry winter morning. As so many winter days are, it was very different from the day before, with its wind and wet and freezing cold conditions. President-elect Abraham Lincoln, his family and his party were leaving the Weddell House in downtown Cleveland, heading toward the Euclid Street Depot for a 9:00 A.M.
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[This is Part 2. Read Part 1 here.]
Lincoln did appreciate the allure of the Falls. The very first impression in his fragment is “Niagara-Falls! By what mysterious power is it that millions and millions, are drawn from all parts of the world, to gaze upon Niagara Falls?” Kaplan, in his book “Biography of a Writer,” notes that the simplicity of the opening exclamatory “establishes the hugeness of his subject.” He further notes that “the exclamation point is both redundant and expressive,” signs of someone who appreciates the magnificence of the Falls. Lincoln’s sensitivity to the Falls’ is further shown in his fragment as he recognizes “its power to excite reflection, and emotion, is its great charm.” Therefore, it appears Lincoln did appreciate the beauty of the Falls, as well as the power of its attraction to people drawn from far and wide.
That said, Herndon is right in his observation that Lincoln had a problem-solver mentality. Seeing the Falls in person is an overwhelming