Abraham Lincoln

Some Lincolns in Kentucky and Tennessee were known as “Linkhorn” and “Linkhern”—their family name altered until its old connections almost disappeared. In 1780, Abraham Lincoln set out from Virginia for a frontier that promised fertile land and boundless adventure.

This first volume begins not in the White House, but along a trail of migrations from England to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia, then west into Kentucky. John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Lincoln’s former private secretaries, follow the family’s scattered records toward the childhood and character of the future president. At the edge of the wilderness, the pioneer Abraham Lincoln had land to claim and a dangerous new country to enter; nearby, Daniel Boone’s exploits made Kentucky a place of irresistible promise. What lay ahead for the family that carried its name into the frontier?

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