In The Boyhood of Lincoln

'In The Boyhood of Lincoln' is a novel about the fictionalized life of Abraham Lincoln's younger years, as written by Hezekiah Butterworth. In this volume, the adventures of a pioneer school-master are made to represent the early history of a newly settled country. Here, many of the Indian romances and cabin tales of the early settlers of Illinois can be found in this book, alongside pictures of the hardships and manly struggles of one who by force of early character made himself the greatest of representative Americans.