Lincolns New Salem Classic Reprint

Author : Illinois Dept Of Public Wor Buildings
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331956204
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln and Historic Illinois (Classic Reprint) written by Illinois Dept Of Public Wor Buildings and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lincoln and Historic Illinois Illinois - land of romance and history - the state that gave to the world Abraham Lincoln, about whom more books have been written than even Napoleon, it is said. Illinois, the state of scenic beauties, wonderfully fecund acres, and of hard roads unsurpassed in the world. What do you know of your state, Illinoisians? What have you seen of its thousands of miles of country that is beautiful, as well as these thousands of acres that are productive? Do you know there are sections of the state as rugged as mountain country, where beautiful water falls please the eye and their music, from tinkles to roars, goes on today as it did long before the white man came. All along the river country, along the Mississippi, that early highway of Indians and pioneers, to the Ohio, and up the Ohio, is country, the eastern outposts of the Ozark mountains, that pleases the eye of even the most seasoned traveler and it may be traversed in autos over roads that are finer than city boulevards - along almost ten thousand miles of concrete pavement. It is country that has belonged successively to the Indians, the French, the British, to the state of Virginia and some sections were claimed even by other of the original thirteen states, on the ground that their seaboard charters extended west to the Pacific. What romance as that of the French voyageurs, paddling in frail canoes, through the Great Lakes, down the Chicago to the Illinois, and thence to the Gulf of Mexico? What history like that of Lincoln, to whose tomb and home in Springfield every year come hundreds of thousands of visitors? And they are not only from the United States, but from almost every country in the world. And they include potentates whose ancestors opposed Lincoln's theory that the people should rule, as well as students, historians and military leaders. No tour of Illinois can be made without constantly touching upon the life of Lincoln. In the central part of the state he lived, from his 21st year until he went to Washington. There he rode circuit. In the southern part of the state he campaigned. In the northwest, he was in the Black Hawk war, and in Chicago he was nominated for the presidency. And over many of the routes the auto tourist takes, Lincoln has traveled on foot or horseback - he walked home to New Salem from the Black Hawk war, where one of his fellow soldiers was Lieutenant Jefferson Davis, who afterward became president of the Confederacy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.