Stories of Abraham Lincoln
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Abe Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories
by Alexandre McClure (1904) “A complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America’s greatest story teller.” The Boyhood of Abraham Lincoln
by J. Rogers Gore; from the narratives of Austin Gollaher (1921) “The following stories . . . were given me at intervals during a period of four or five years, by Austin Gollaher, who spent all his life among the hills of LaRue County, Kentucky . . ., a boyhood friend of Abraham Lincoln.” Accounts not found anywhere else. Boys’ and Girls’ Biography of Abraham Lincoln
by James Shaw (1909) Very simple retelling for younger children with several short anecdotes. The Early Pioneers and Pioneer Events of the State of Illinois
by Harvey Lee Ross (1899) “The author . . . having settled in [Illinois] with his parents in the year 1820, and having lived to witness the rise and progress and development of the great state from its infancy . . . and having been well acquainted with Abraham Lincoln . . . was solicited by his friends . . . to write . . . what he knew concerning pioneer times and those illustrious men.” Latest Light on Lincoln and War-time Memories
by Ervin Chapman (1917) “There is a great fund of information concerning Lincoln never before published . . . because of his intimate knowledge of the workings of the general government and his close and prolonged acquaintance and association with eminent men during Lincoln’s administration.” “Good news can never come too often and this is a book of good news which we will never tire of reading. It tells us what we always believed was true about Lincoln and the proofs are so conclusive that no misleading myths or legends will hereafter be given credence.” Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boys and Girls
by Charles Moores (1909) “Every American, over eight years old, ought to know the story of Abraham Lincoln’s life . . . To give to children an understanding of his great life, an appreciation of the simplicity and purity of his literary style, and a love of the man, has been the purpose of this little book.” |
A Life of Lincoln for Boys
by Frances Campbell Spearhawk (1909) “ . . . the keynote of his character was not his ability or his industry . . . It was something higher–it was his purpose . . . Not what he had, but what he was and what he could do in the world seemed to him worthy of struggle and labor.” New World Heroes
by Marianne Farmingham (1907) Lives of Lincoln and Garfield written for the boys and youth of Great Britain to “inspire them with hope and courage” and “fresh determination”. “Live worthily, not for thyself, but for the fellow-man, and for they God.” Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln
by Henry B. Rankin (1916) Among other “reminiscences” note “the gracious and revealing light which he has portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln, so long misunderstood, so often misrepresented . . . There is nothing in our history more unmanly, more cruel, more devoid of every fine instinct, than the treatment of that noble woman by a prying, gossiping press, which pursued her even into her lonesome later years.” Also, “ . . . no page in this book of memories is more unforgettable than . . . a quiet talk between [the writer’s] mother and Lincoln regarding religion during the campaign of 1847.” The Story Life of Lincoln
by Wayne Whipple (1908) “A Biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends selected from authentic sources and fitted together in order forming his complete life history. The True Story of Abraham Lincoln
by Elbridge Brooks (1896) From the series, ‘Children’s Lives of Great Men’ |