. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. ness, highlypicturesque in its streams, its forests, and itsprairies; in places, smooth as a floor, andagain swelling into gentle undulations like theocean at the subsidence of a storm. Thepainted Indian here had free range; a savagemore ferocious than the wild beasts he pur-sued. Though Daniel Boone had exploredthis region, and had returned to the other sideof the Alleghanies laden with peltry, andwith th
. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. ness, highlypicturesque in its streams, its forests, and itsprairies; in places, smooth as a floor, andagain swelling into gentle undulations like theocean at the subsidence of a storm. Thepainted Indian here had free range; a savagemore ferocious than the wild beasts he pur-sued. Though Daniel Boone had exploredthis region, and had returned to the other sideof the Alleghanies laden with peltry, andwith the report that it was an earthly para-dise, there were but few who were ready toplunge into the pathless wilderness, leavingall vestiges of civilization hundreds of milesbehind them. But Providence, for the sakeof peopling this country, seems to have raisedup a peculiar class of men, who loved hard-ship and peril and utter loneliness. The In-dians were always clustered in villages; butthese men, the pioneers of civilization, pene-trated the recesses of the forest, and rearedtheir cabins in the most secluded valleys,where they seldom heard the voice or saw theface of their ABRAHAM LI^XOLX. About the year 1780, when the War of theRevolution was still raging, one of these men,Abraham Lincoln, left the beautiful Valley oithe Shenandoah, in Virginia, for the wilds oiKentucky, his wife and one or two childrenaccompanying him. There were no roads;there were no paths, but the trail of the In-dian. All their worldly goods they must havecarried in packs upon their backs; unless, pos-sibly, they might have been enabled to takewith them a horse or a mule. What motivecould have induced a civilized man to take sucha step, it is difficult to imagine; arid still, fromthe earliest settlement of our country until thepresent day, there have been thousands thusever crowding into the wilderness. Only twoyears after this emigration. Abraham Lincoln,still a young man. while working one d
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