Clara Ingram Judson began her journey into the Lincoln country at Knob Creek Farm, a beautiful spot in the heart of Kentucky's knobby hills.  Here Abraham Lincoln himself located his first recollections of childhood.  Here, too, Mrs. Judson begins her story.

The author visited the site of the school house which Abe attended. She saw the farm he and his father planted.  Following the way of the Lincoln family westward, she came to Illinois and to New Salem, and took the trail on to Springfield that Lincoln himself walked countless times.

"All this travel through Lincoln country is rewarding," writes Mrs. Judson.  "But a deeper knowledge of the man comes through solitary study of the written word.  I have searched through countless newspapers; I have carefully read over two hundred books; and dipped into scores of others for research on details..."

The result is a rich and satisfying biography of the prairie president, based on the most up-to-date and accurate sources of information.  Here is the real Lincoln—in his gauntness, his gawkiness, and his greatness—the backwoods boy who became President and saved the Union.

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