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Eliphalet Biggs Becomes Acquainted With Bim Kelso
In 1832 New Salem Illinois Samson Traylor aids fugitives from a Missouri slaver. Abe Lincoln and Jack Kelso's daughter Bim becomes the object of Eliphalet Biggs’s courtship as rows of frontier life unfold including a horse, a ladder, and a tavern romance.
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Samson
Sarah Traylor
Josiah
Betsey
Vergennes
Land of Plenty
Illinois
Niagara Falls
John McNeil
Sarah
Harry Needies
Traylors
New Salem
Abe” Lincoln
Lincoln
Jack Kelso
Bim
Jack Arma
Armstrong
Harry Needles
Bap McNell
McNell
John Peasley
Orwell Farm
Henry Brimstead
Brimstead
Goshen
Peasley
Orwell
York State
Mr. Peasley
Groes
Samson Traylor
John
Charles
Mr. Traylor
Traylor
Missouri
Lightnin
Stephen Nuckles
Rassle
Livingston County
Canaan Barrens
Vermont
Liph Biggs
New
Free
America
Mr. Bigga
Biggs
Doctor Allen
Offut
Abe
Hopedale
St. Louis
Kentucky
Ann Rutledge
Ann
Bib
Tucker
Mr. Biggs
Mrs. Kelso
Henry
Mr. Eliphalet Biggs
Bim Kelso
James Rutledge
Rutledge
Eliphalet Biggs
Olive Street
Rutledges
Ego- Yand
Kelso
Cervantes
Blackstone
Eb Zane