Abraham Lincoln: Humble and Great (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: Humble and GreatWestward and northwestward in New York, in Pennsylvania, in Maryland, in Virginia and in West Virginia, in North and South Carolina, and in Georgia, the mountains rise. Beyond the mountains, sloping downward to the Missis sippi River and away to the west, is an im mense expanse of land. There Abraham Lin coln was born. There he lived and worked most of his life. There he lies buried.This land west of the mountains is rich and fertile, a land of rolling hills and broad prairies, of mountain ranges and bluegrass pastures. Sunshine blesses and burns this region in the growing season. Terrible snows and blizzards descend upon it in the winter.Forests of hard and soft woods covered the land once, except where the prairies stretched green and billowing. No man could find his way through the trackless woods without hack ing a pathway, nor could he return that same way if he had not left a blaze upon the trees as he went. Sycamores, walnuts, hickories, oaks, maples, elms, pines, and spruces lifted their heads in these forests. Huge trunks rose from tangles of underbrush and vines.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.