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Prairie cabin tale mirrors Lincoln era frontier life
Samson and Sarah Traylor travel to New Salem Illinois with two children where they befriend Abe Lincoln and neighbors. The narrative follows settling a cabin, feuds with rowdies, healing fever, a Welcoming party, and a runaway slave couple seeking freedom aided by Lovejoy and Wright, amid frontier politics and homesteading.
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Samson
Sarah Traylor
Josiah
Betsey
Vergennes
Land of Plenty
Sangamon
Illinois
Niagara Falls
John McNeil
Sarah
Harry Needles
Traylors
New Salem
Abe” Lincoln
Harry
Bim
McNell
Abe
Springfield
Callahan
Mr. McNell
Deacon Somers
Judge Grandy
Jack Kelso
Jack Armstrong
New England
Prairies
Kelso
Bimbelso
Ann Rutledge
The
Honest Abe
Kirkham
Pilgrim's Progress
Washington
Henry Clay
Hamlet
Senate
Marc Anthony
Webster
Hayne
God
Daniel Webster
Clay
Jackson
Sapington
Pittsburg
Ohio
Indiana
Alton
Beardstown
Mississippi
Elijah Lovejoy
Mr. Lovejoy
Erastus Wright
Mr. Wright
Samson Traylor
John Peasley
Hopedale
Tazewell County
Lovejoy
Biggs