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The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania : A History and Guide /

"The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania transports the reader back in time to key moments in Lincoln's public life. In 1846, at the age of thirty-seven, Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Using mileage that Lincoln claimed for his trip, available routes, duration of the j...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hoch, Bradley R., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lincoln in Pennsylvania
  • Foreword / Gabor S. Boritt
  • "An Omen of What Is to Come": Washington's Birthday 1861
  • "Mystic Chords of Memory": Lincoln Ancestors
  • "Struck Blind": Lincoln in Congress
  • "Dare to Do Our Duty": Lincoln and the Pennsylvania Politicians
  • "To See and Be Seen": The Inaugural Train
  • "Looked at Through a Fog": Lincoln and the Railroads
  • "Unfinished Work": The Gettysburg Address
  • "Comfort and Relief": The Great Central Sanitary Fair
  • "The Heavens Are Hung in Black": The Funeral Train
  • Postscript: The Literal Trail
  • Sites to Visit
  • Springfield to Washington, D.C., 1847
  • Lincoln and Pennsylvania's Railroads.