The Isaac Golliher house.
The LINCOLN
COUNTRY
in Pictures
By CARL and ROSALIE FRAZIER
HASTINGS HOUSE Publishers New York 22
The story of Abraham Lincoln is ever fresh. It appeals to the imagination andgrips the vision of many people in various ways. Perhaps that is why millions ofvisitors make pilgrimages to the humble abodes in which he lived and the placeshe frequented.Photograph Courtesy Chicago Historical Society.
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, Ican say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed bymy fellow men, rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeedin gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed.”—Address to Sangamon County, March 9, 1832.
Copyright © 1963, by Carl and Rosalie Frazier
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced
without written permission of the publisher.
Published simultaneously in Canada
by S. J. Reginald Saunders, Publishers, Toronto 2B
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-19173
Printed in the United States of America
FOREWORD
We know it is no longer possible to add anything new to the written wordabout Lincoln. The hundreds of historians who have attempted to writethe life of the Great Emancipator have covered every facet of it. Therefore, wehave chosen to present our story of a by-gone day in a series of camera impressions,hoping to arouse in our readers an emotional sense of “present being.”
We have done this for two reasons: first, because Lincoln’s early frontierhas achieved a factual and imaginative rebirth through loving care and painstakingefforts after having fallen into ruin for many years. Secondly, we believeas many historians do, that America owes much of the credit for its nationalcharacter and institutions to the atmosphere of the early frontier. It was theappreciation of the role it played on the character of Lincoln that brought aboutthe restoration of New Salem, Illinois, and those objects which were so closelyassociated with him. These objects are of special interest because it was amongthem that he moved slowly forward through a cycle of failures and successesbefore reaching the high place which destiny had reserved for him. No man inAmerican history has started with so little and achieved so much.
With a certain temerity then, we present our pictorial history of the environmentin which Lincoln spent