J. Edward Murr

Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years (eBook, ePUB)

Collected Works of J. Edward Murr
Redaktion: Claybourn, Joshua

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Abraham Lincoln spent a quarter of his life-from 1816 to 1830, ages 7 to 21-learning and growing in southwestern Indiana. Despite the importance of these formative years, Lincoln rarely discussed this period, and with his sudden, untimely death in 1865, mysterious gaps appear in recorded history.

In Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years, Joshua Claybourn collects and annotates the most significant scholarship from J. Edward Murr, one of the only writers to cover this lost period of Lincoln's life. A Hoosier minister who grew up with the 16th president's cousins, Murr interviewed locals who knew Lincoln. Part I features selected portions of Murr's book-length manuscript on Lincoln's youth, published here for the first time. Part II offers a series by Murr on Lincoln's life in Indiana, originally printed in the Indiana Magazine of History. Part III reveals letters between Murr and US Senator Albert J. Beveridge, a prominent historian, about Beveridge's early manuscript of the biography Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858.

Of all Lincoln's biographers, none knew his boyhood associates and Indiana environment as well as Murr, whose complete Lincoln research and scholarship have never been published-until now. Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years preserves and celebrates this important source material, unique for studying Lincoln's boyhood years in Indiana.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253062703
• Artikelnr.: 64167949

Autorenporträt

J. Edward Murr. edited by Joshua Claybourn

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Wilderness Years
Thomas Lincoln, Father of the President
Nancy Hanks, Mother of Lincoln
Birth of Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky Childhood
Part II: Lincoln's Indiana Years
Indiana Uncle and Cousins
Lincoln's Poverty
Boyhood Associates
Manners and Customs of Hoosier Pioneers
Lincoln, A Hoosier
One Fourth of Lincoln's Life Spent in Indiana
The Every-Day Life of Lincoln
Lincoln's Honesty and Truthfulness
Lincoln's Freedom from Bad Habits
Church and Religion
Young Lincoln on the Stump
Lincoln's Ambition to Become a River Pilot
"Now He Belongs to the Ages"
Leaving the Indiana Wilderness
Death and Burial of Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Part III: Albert Beveridge Correspondence
Appendix: Murr Informants
Bibliography