{"product_id":"2940015593389","title":"THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN","description":"TABLE OF CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirth.--His father and mother.--History of Thomas Lincoln and his family\u003cbr\u003ea necessary part of Abraham Lincoln's biography.--Thomas Lincoln's\u003cbr\u003eancestors.--Members of the family remaining in Virginia.--Birth of\u003cbr\u003eThomas Lincoln.--Removal to Kentucky.--Life in the Wilderness.--Lincolns\u003cbr\u003esettle in Mercer County.--Thomas Lincoln's father shot by\u003cbr\u003eIndians.--Widow and family remove to Washington County.--Thomas\u003cbr\u003epoor.--Wanders into Breckinridge County.--Goes to Hardin County.--Works\u003cbr\u003eat the carpenter's trade.--Cannot read or write.--Personal\u003cbr\u003eappearance.--Called \"Linckhom,\" or \"Linckhera.\"--Thomas Lincoln as\u003cbr\u003ea carpenter.--Marries Nancy Hanks.--Previously courted Sally\u003cbr\u003eBush.--Character of Sally Bush.--The person and character of Nancy\u003cbr\u003eHanks.--Thomas and Nancy Lincoln go to live in a shed.--Birth of a\u003cbr\u003edaughter.--They remove to Nolin Creek.--Birth of Abraham.--Removal to\u003cbr\u003eKnob Creek.--Little Abe initiated into wild sports.--His sadness.--Goes\u003cbr\u003eto school.--Thomas Lincoln concludes to move.--Did not fly from the\u003cbr\u003etaint of slavery.--Abraham Lincoln always reticent about the history and\u003cbr\u003echaracter of his family.--Record in his Bible... 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Lincoln builds a boat.--Floats down to the Ohio.--Boat\u003cbr\u003ecapsizes.--Lands in Perry County, Indiana.--Selects a location.--Walks\u003cbr\u003eback to Knob Creek for wife and children.--Makes his way through\u003cbr\u003ethe wilderness.--Settles between the two Pigeon Creeks.--Gentry\u003cbr\u003eville.--Selects a site.--Lincoln builds a half-faced camp.--Clears\u003cbr\u003eground and raises a small crop.--Dennis Hanks.--Lincoln builds a\u003cbr\u003ecabin.--State of the country.--Indiana admitted to the Union.--Rise\u003cbr\u003eof Gentryville.--Character of the people.--Lincoln's patent for his\u003cbr\u003eland.--His farm, cabin, furniture.--The milk-sickness.--Death of Nancy\u003cbr\u003eHanks Lincoln.--Funeral discourse by David Elkin.--Grave.--Tom Lincoln\u003cbr\u003emarries Sally Bush.--Her goods and chattels.--Her surprise at the\u003cbr\u003epoverty of the Lincoln cabin.--Clothes and comforts Abe and his\u003cbr\u003esister.--Abe leads a new life.--Is sent to school.--Abe's appearance and\u003cbr\u003edress.--Learning \"manners\"--Abe's essays.--Tenderness for animals.--The\u003cbr\u003elast of school.--Abe excelled the masters.--Studied privately.--Did not\u003cbr\u003elike to work.--Wrote on wooden shovel and boards.--How Abe studied.--The\u003cbr\u003ebooks he read.--The \"Revised Statute of Indiana.\"--Did not read the\u003cbr\u003eBible.--No religious opinions.--How he behaved at home.--Touching\u003cbr\u003erecital by Mrs. Lincoln.--Abe's memory.--Mimicks the preachers.--Makes\u003cbr\u003e\"stump-speeches\" in the field.--Cruelly maltreated by his father.--Works\u003cbr\u003eout cheerfully.--Universal favorite.--The kind of people he lived\u003cbr\u003eamongst.--Mrs. Crawford's reminiscences.--Society about Gentryville.\u003cbr\u003e--His step-mother.--His sister.--The Johnstons and Hankses.--Abe a\u003cbr\u003eferryman and farm-servant.--His work and habits.--Works for Josiah\u003cbr\u003eCrawford.--Mrs. Crawford's account of him.--Crawford's books.--Becomes\u003cbr\u003ea wit and a poet.--Abe the tallest and strongest man in the\u003cbr\u003esettlement.--Hunting in the Pigeon Creek region.--His activity.--Love of\u003cbr\u003etalking and reading.--Fond of rustic sports.--Furnishes the\u003cbr\u003eliterature.--Would not be slighted.--His satires.--Songs and\u003cbr\u003echronicles.--Gentryville as \"a centre of business.\"--Abe and other\u003cbr\u003eboys loiter about the village.--Very temperate.--\"Clerks\" for Col.\u003cbr\u003eJones.--Abe saves a drunken man's life.--Fond of music.--Marriage of his\u003cbr\u003esister Nancy.--Extracts from his copy-book.--His Chronicles.--Fight with\u003cbr\u003ethe Grigs-bys.--Abe \"the big buck of the lick.\"--\"Speaking meetings\"\u003cbr\u003eat Gentryville.--Dennis Hanks's account of the way he and Abe became so\u003cbr\u003elearned.--Abe attends a court.--Abe expects to be President.--Going\u003cbr\u003eto mill.--Kicked in the head by a horse.--Mr. Wood.--Piece on\u003cbr\u003etemperance.--On national politics.--Abe tired of home.--Works for\u003cbr\u003eMr. Gentry.--Knowledge of astronomy and geography.--Goes to New\u003cbr\u003eOrleans.--Counterfeit money.--Fight with negroes.--Scar on his face.\u003cbr\u003e--An apocryphal story...........19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbe's return from New Orleans.--Sawing planks for a new house.--The\u003cbr\u003emilk-sickness.--Removal to Illinois.--Settles near Decatur.--Abe leaves\u003cbr\u003ehome.--Subsequent removals and death of Thomas Lincoln.--Abe's relations\u003cbr\u003eto the family.--Works with John Hanks after leaving home.--Splitting\u003cbr\u003erails.--Makes a speech on the improvement of the Sangamon River.--Second\u003cbr\u003evoyage to New Orleans.--Loading and departure of the boat.--\"Sticks\" on\u003cbr\u003eNew Salem dam.--Abe's contrivance to get her off.--Model in the Patent\u003cbr\u003eOffice.--Arrival at New Orleans.--Negroes chained.--Abe touched by the\u003cbr\u003esight.--Returns on a steamboat.--Wrestles with Daniel Needham.........73","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156022345968,"sku":"2940015593389","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015593389","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}