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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.
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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