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Description:In the spring of 1831 Abraham Lincoln, along with two relatives, built a flatboat and set off down the Mississippi River for New Orleans. He spent a month in this, the most sophisticated, opulent American city of the day, and never wrote or said a word about the things he experienced there. He saw things totally foreign to his rural Midwestern upbringing: Technological innovations of the steam ages, architectural wonders, cultural life in a city with a large international population -- books, theater, music. And, at every turn . . . slavery. History provides very few clues to the way these experiences influenced Lincoln. He was just 22 years old, and finally freed of his obligations to his father and the family farm. Denton Offutt hired Lincoln, as well as his step-brother John Johnston and cousin John Hanks, to build the boat and take a load of farm products downriver to sell in New Orleans. They started their journey in Sangamon County, Illinois, just north of Springfield. Offutt, a somewhat mysterious man previously unknown to them, went along, too. Sixty years later, journalist Ida Tarbell reported some of the events. She described how Abe heroically rescued local boys from the cold Sangamon River. How he ingeniously devised a way to free a boat stuck on a mill dam. How he kept the folks in Sangamon Town entertained with stories.In this novel, based on Tarbell's work and other historical sources, John Roll an irrepressible 17-year-old Sangamon Town lad tells the tale of the weeks Lincoln and the others spent building the boat, their on-the-river adventures, and their discoveries in New Orleans. Come along on the journey. Ride the river and walk the streets of 1831 New Orleans. Meet the boatmen, merchants, slave owners, free persons of color, musicians, drunks, and, of course, the young Abe Lincoln. See how the impressionable, curious Lincoln comes to terms with the complexities of the day and considers his future in this rollicking adventure. Sample from Chapter 1: In which I first meet Abe Lincoln and we start on our adventure. "This has been the best year of my life. They'll be adventures ahead, but I can't think any will be as good as the ones I've had heading down to New Orleans with Abe Lincoln."It was about a year ago that Abe arrived in Sangamon Town. He came along just in time, as far as I was concerned. Fall and winter had been interesting what with Mr. Brigham setting up the new wool-carding mill. It runs on steam power. None of us around here has ever seen anything like it. But by March things had slowed down. Pa had taken to hiring me out when folks would buy things in the store. They'd buy whitewash, I'd get to help paint the plaster inside of their house. Rope, and I'd get to re-string the bed. At least he didn't offer to make me sew when women bought yard goods. "So here's how I first met Abe. It was still kind of early in the day. I was at the square doing the last of my chores, tossing some feed over the fence to the horses Pa had there for folks. Wasn't thinking about much, when I see this long-legged fellow come along through the fog from the riverbank. It was a good thing he'd pulled his pant legs up or they'd been sopping with all the water from the brush he'd been walking through. As it was, his shins were blue with cold. He had a long bundle wrapped in buckskin under one arm. He was the plainest man I'd ever seen. But there was something about the look in his eyes that made me pay attention."And so the story beginsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Abraham Lincoln in New Orleans. To get started finding Abraham Lincoln in New Orleans, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the spring of 1831 Abraham Lincoln, along with two relatives, built a flatboat and set off down the Mississippi River for New Orleans. He spent a month in this, the most sophisticated, opulent American city of the day, and never wrote or said a word about the things he experienced there. He saw things totally foreign to his rural Midwestern upbringing: Technological innovations of the steam ages, architectural wonders, cultural life in a city with a large international population -- books, theater, music. And, at every turn . . . slavery. History provides very few clues to the way these experiences influenced Lincoln. He was just 22 years old, and finally freed of his obligations to his father and the family farm. Denton Offutt hired Lincoln, as well as his step-brother John Johnston and cousin John Hanks, to build the boat and take a load of farm products downriver to sell in New Orleans. They started their journey in Sangamon County, Illinois, just north of Springfield. Offutt, a somewhat mysterious man previously unknown to them, went along, too. Sixty years later, journalist Ida Tarbell reported some of the events. She described how Abe heroically rescued local boys from the cold Sangamon River. How he ingeniously devised a way to free a boat stuck on a mill dam. How he kept the folks in Sangamon Town entertained with stories.In this novel, based on Tarbell's work and other historical sources, John Roll an irrepressible 17-year-old Sangamon Town lad tells the tale of the weeks Lincoln and the others spent building the boat, their on-the-river adventures, and their discoveries in New Orleans. Come along on the journey. Ride the river and walk the streets of 1831 New Orleans. Meet the boatmen, merchants, slave owners, free persons of color, musicians, drunks, and, of course, the young Abe Lincoln. See how the impressionable, curious Lincoln comes to terms with the complexities of the day and considers his future in this rollicking adventure. Sample from Chapter 1: In which I first meet Abe Lincoln and we start on our adventure. "This has been the best year of my life. They'll be adventures ahead, but I can't think any will be as good as the ones I've had heading down to New Orleans with Abe Lincoln."It was about a year ago that Abe arrived in Sangamon Town. He came along just in time, as far as I was concerned. Fall and winter had been interesting what with Mr. Brigham setting up the new wool-carding mill. It runs on steam power. None of us around here has ever seen anything like it. But by March things had slowed down. Pa had taken to hiring me out when folks would buy things in the store. They'd buy whitewash, I'd get to help paint the plaster inside of their house. Rope, and I'd get to re-string the bed. At least he didn't offer to make me sew when women bought yard goods. "So here's how I first met Abe. It was still kind of early in the day. I was at the square doing the last of my chores, tossing some feed over the fence to the horses Pa had there for folks. Wasn't thinking about much, when I see this long-legged fellow come along through the fog from the riverbank. It was a good thing he'd pulled his pant legs up or they'd been sopping with all the water from the brush he'd been walking through. As it was, his shins were blue with cold. He had a long bundle wrapped in buckskin under one arm. He was the plainest man I'd ever seen. But there was something about the look in his eyes that made me pay attention."And so the story beginsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Abraham Lincoln in New Orleans. To get started finding Abraham Lincoln in New Orleans, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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