Fireside Tales and Lincoln's First Glimpse in Camp
In Abe's fireside gathering Kelso praises New England strength while Samson recalls Yankee wit and a Plymouth sermon. Abe reveals his growing moral ambition as the group debates liberty and honesty, ending with Kelso’s daughter Biro bartering in the rustic scene.
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Samson
Hogarth
Abe
Ispahan
Traylor
Stephen Nuckies
God
Isles
Esquimaux
Hottentota
Mammon
Kentucky
Kelso
New England
Theodore Parker
Webster
Him
Plymouth
Making a New Home in the Log Cabin Era
Dawn finds two parties cutting timber for newcomers home as Samson easily lifts a seven to eight hundred pound log, Abe and Joe assist with boards and a whip saw. A haunting chorus of Sweet Nineteen gale halts work and Abe recalls a clever cousin of the bobolink as village gossip swirls among Mrs. Martin Waddell and Ann Rutledge.
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Harry Needles
Samson
Joe
Abe
Thuber
Nolay
Lincoln
Martin Waddell
Sarah
Ann Rutledge
Ann
New Salem
John McNeil
Honest Abe and Traylors Reach New Salem in 1831
In the summer of 1831 the Samson and Tate party travels from Nes Vt to Sangamon country. They meet immigrants including John McKeil and John Mckeil enters Sangamon. Sarah aids a fever victim Harry Needles as the Traylors reach New Salem, where they are welcomed by a young Abe Lincoln. The Traylors decide to settle there.
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Kelso
Samson
Lincoln
Ophir
Abe
Webster
Plymouth
Midlands
Doctor Allen
Syno
Tate
Josiah
Betsey
Nes
Lawn of Plenty
Ohn Mckeil
Sangamon
Sarah
Harry Needles
Traylors
New Salem
Illinois
Abé” Lincoln
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Irving Bacheller
Eli
Jan
Wit
Jack Kelso
David Barney
Sean
Ib Husband
Ornia
Ae Prar
B.C
A, LI