Lincoln's Old Friends of Menard County, Illinois

Lincoln's Old Friends of Menard County, Illinois

Dale Thomas, Michael Burlingame

Språken
FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9781614237730

At the age of twenty-two, Abraham Lincoln arrived in New Salem, Illinois, as a "strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy" (in his own words). He did not remain friendless for long. Meet the community that welcomed him: Bennett and Elizabeth Abell, the couple who guided him through heartache; M