# The Life of Abraham Lincoln Author: Ketcham, Henry Genre: Category: Biographies Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6811 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Life+of+Abraham+Lincoln+Ketcham&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary At the beginning of the twentieth century there is, strictly speaking, no frontier to the United States. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the larger part of the country was frontier. In any portion of the country to-day, in the remotest villages and hamlets, on the enormous farms of the Dakotas or the vast ranches of California, one is certain to find some, if not many, of the modern appliances of civilization such as were not dreamed of one hundred years ago. Aladdin himself could not have commanded the glowing terms to write the prospectus of the closing years of the nineteenth century. So, too, it requires an extraordinary effort of the imagination to conceive of the conditi... ## Chapters - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-abraham-lincoln-6811/chapters/5/index.md)