A Short Life Of Abraham Lincoln Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Life of Abraham Lincoln IN the year _1809, a traveller setting out from the village of Elizabethtown, in Kentucky, would have come in time to a lonely miserable log-cabin in'the midst of a bare, desolate, rocky tract of country, which even the sunshine could not make cheerful. The only pleasant thing ln sight was a little silvery Spring of fresh water, after which the place was called Rock Spring Farm. But it was not properly a farm at all, only a hut in the wilderness, without floors or windows or chimneys or rooms; just a square of roughly hewn logs, roofed over and giving shelter from the weather, but little else. Yet the place where this dismal cabin once stood is one 'of the most famous in American history, for in it was bom Abraham Lincoln, the boy who was destined to become President of the United States, and to free America from the shame of slave No boy ever had a less hopeful start in life, but this was not altogether the fault of his father, Thomas Lincoln. -his father, the first Abraham Lincoln, had started out, full of hope, to make his fortune in the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.