. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . DANIEL BOONE : ENGRAVED BYT. JOHNSON FROM THE PAINTING BY SULLY, IN POSSESSION OF FRANK M. ETTING, ESQ., fFAC-SIMILK FROM THE FIELD-BOOK OF DANIEL BOONE RECORDINGTHE LINCOLN CLAIM ON LICKING RIVER. FROM THE ORIGINALIN POSSESSION OF LYMAN C. DRAPER, ESQ., MADISON, WIS.] LINCOLN AS PIONEER. who was then in the prime of his manhood,and in the midst of those achievements whichwill forever render him one of the most pic-turesque heroes in all our annals, it is not tobe wondered at that his own circle of friendsshould have caught th
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . DANIEL BOONE : ENGRAVED BYT. JOHNSON FROM THE PAINTING BY SULLY, IN POSSESSION OF FRANK M. ETTING, ESQ., fFAC-SIMILK FROM THE FIELD-BOOK OF DANIEL BOONE RECORDINGTHE LINCOLN CLAIM ON LICKING RIVER. FROM THE ORIGINALIN POSSESSION OF LYMAN C. DRAPER, ESQ., MADISON, WIS.] LINCOLN AS PIONEER. who was then in the prime of his manhood,and in the midst of those achievements whichwill forever render him one of the most pic-turesque heroes in all our annals, it is not tobe wondered at that his own circle of friendsshould have caught the general enthusiasmand felt the desire to emulate his career. Boones exploration of Kentucky had be-gun some ten years before Lincoln set out tofollow his trail. In 1769 he made his memo-rable journey to that virgin wilderness ofwhose beauty he always loved to speak evento his latest breath. During all that year hehunted, finding everywhere abundance ofgame. The buffalo, he says, were morefrequent than I have seen cattle in the settle-ments, browsing on the leaves of the cane, orcropping the herbage on these extensive plains,fearless because ignorant of the violenc
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