Samson Traylor brings his family by wagon from Vermont to the Illinois prairie in the 1830s and settles at New Salem, where a tall young storekeeper and surveyor named Abraham Lincoln is beginning to be noticed. Through frontier hardship, courtship and village politics the Traylors watch Lincoln grow into the man he became.
A warm, popular historical novel of Lincoln’s prairie years. Download the free EPUB.
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