. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . whose courage,forest lore, and singular intuitions of savagecharacter the State of Kentucky owed morethan to any other man, was deprived in hisold age of his hard-earned homestead throughhis ignorance of legal forms, and removed toMissouri to repeat in that new territory hislabors and his misfortunes. The period at which Lincoln came westwas one of note in the history of Kentucky. 12 LINCOLN AS PIONEER. The labors of Henderson and the Transyl-vania Company had begun to bear fruit inextensive plantations and a connected systemof forts. The la
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . whose courage,forest lore, and singular intuitions of savagecharacter the State of Kentucky owed morethan to any other man, was deprived in hisold age of his hard-earned homestead throughhis ignorance of legal forms, and removed toMissouri to repeat in that new territory hislabors and his misfortunes. The period at which Lincoln came westwas one of note in the history of Kentucky. 12 LINCOLN AS PIONEER. The labors of Henderson and the Transyl-vania Company had begun to bear fruit inextensive plantations and a connected systemof forts. The land laws of Kentucky had re-duced to something like order the chaos ofconflicting claims arising from the variousgrants and the different preemption customsunder which settlers occupied their victory of Boone at Boonesboroughagainst the Shawnees, and the capture ofKaskaskia and Vincennes by the brilliantaudacity of George Rogers Clarke, had broughtthe region prominently before the attentionof the Atlantic States, and had turned in that. LONG RUN BAPTIST MEETING-HOUSE, BUILT ABOUT I797 ON THE LAND OF ABRAHAM LINKHORN (LINCOLN). DRAWING FROM MEMORY, IN POSSESSION OF R. T. DURRETT, ESQ. direction the restless and roving spirit whichis always found in communities at periodswhen great emigrations are a need of civiliza-tion. Up to this time few persons had crossedthe mountains except hunters, trappers, andexplorers,— men who came merely to kill In-dians or game, or to spy out the fertility ofthe land for the purpose of speculation. Butin 1780 and 1781 a large number of familiestook up their line of march, and in the latteryear a considerable contingent of womenjoined the little army of pioneers, impelled byan instinct which they themselves probablybut half comprehended. The country was tobe peopled, and there was no other way ofpeopling it but by the sacrifice of many livesand fortunes; and the history of every countryshows that these are never lacking when theyare wan
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