Team Of Rivals Part 68

"the panther's...on the swine": "The Bear Hunt," [September 6, 1846?], in CW, I, p. 386.

Sarah, did the cooking...Dennis Hanks: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH (interview), June 13, 1865, in HI, p. 40.

a "quick minded woman...laugh": Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in ibid., p. 113.

"wild-ragged and dirty": Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in ibid., p. 41.

soaped..."more human": Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 106.

"sat down...to his grief": Redmond Grigsby, quoted in Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 95.

"From then on...you might say": John W. Lamar, quoted in ibid.

"It is with deep grief...ever expect it": AL to f.a.n.n.y McCullough, December 23, 1862, in CW, VI, pp. 1617.

"He was different...great potential": Douglas L. Wilson, "Young Man Lincoln," in The Lincoln Enigma, p. 35.

"clearly exceptional...intellectual equal": Donald, Lincoln, p. 32.

"soared above us...guide and leader": Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in HI, p. 114.

"a Boy of uncommon natural Talents": A. H. Chapman statement, ante September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 99.

"His mind & mine...if he could": Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., pp. 108, 107.

"He was a strong...neighborhood": Leonard Swett, "Lincoln's Story of His Own Life," in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, ed. Allen Thorndike Rice (1885; New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1909), p. 71.

his great gift for storytelling...fireplace at night: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, p. 107; John Hanks interview, [18651866], in ibid., p. 454.

along the old c.u.mberland Trail: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 7.

Thomas Lincoln would swap tales: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in HI, p. 37.

Young Abe listened...in his memory: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107.

Nothing was more upsetting...that was told: Rev. J. P. Gulliver article in New York Independent, September 1, 1864, quoted in F. B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1866), p. 312.

"no small part...to comprehend": AL, quoted in ibid., pp. 31213.

having translated the stories...young listeners: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, and Dennis F. Hanks interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, pp. 42, 104; Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107.

subscription schools: Donald, Lincoln, p. 29.

"No qualification...wizzard": AL, "Autobiography written for Jesse W. Fell," December 20, 1859, in CW, III, p. 511.

"by littles"...pick up on his own: AL, "Scripps autobiography," in CW, IV, p. 62.

"he could lay his hands on": Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in HI, p. 41; Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107; John S. Houghland interview, September 17, 1865, in ibid., p. 130.

"a luxury...the middle cla.s.s": Fidler, "Young Limbs of the Law," p. 249.

obtained copies of: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 15; Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in HI, p. 112; Charles B. Strozier, Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings (New York: Basic Books, 1982), p. 231.

"his eyes sparkled...could not sleep": David Herbert Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era, 3rd edn. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956; New York: Vintage Books, 2001), pp. 6768.

"the great ma.s.s...to perform": AL, "Second Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions," [February 11, 1859], in CW, III, pp. 36263.

"as unpoetical...of the earth": AL to Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846, in CW, I, p. 378.

"There is no Frigate...Lands away": Emily d.i.c.kinson, "There is no Frigate like a Book," The Complete Poems of Emily d.i.c.kinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1960), p. 553.

the Revised Statutes...and political thought: Helen Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Century Co., 1912), pp. 6668.

Everywhere he went: Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in HI, p. 113.

"When he came across"...memorized: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107.

The story is often recounted..."on a stalk": Oliver C. Terry to JWW, July 1888, in ibid., p. 662.

Lincoln wrote poems...Crawford's large nose: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in ibid., p. 41; A. H. Chapman statement, ante September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 101.

"Josiah blowing his bugle": AL, "Chronicles of Reuben," as paraphrased in Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 47.

Seward had only to pick: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 1922, 3135.

regarded as odd and indolent: Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 38; Dennis Hanks interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, p. 104.

"particular Care...of his own accord": Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 108.

When he found...could continue: Matilda Johnston Moore interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 110.

destroyed his books...abused him: Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 3839.

father's decision to hire him out: Swett, "Lincoln's Story of His Own Life," in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice, p. 70.

the "self-made" men in Lincoln's generation: Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution, p. 231; Wiebe, The Opening of American Society, p. 271.

The same "longing to rise": de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 627.

departed...bundled on his shoulder: Swett, "Lincoln's Story of His Own Life," in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice, pp. 7172.

New Salem was a budding town: Benjamin P. Thomas, Lincoln's New Salem (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, 1934; 1947), p. 15.

to "keep body and soul together": AL, "Scripps autobiography," in CW, IV, p. 65.

Lincoln in New Salem: Thomas, Lincoln's New Salem, pp. 4177; Mentor Graham to WHH, May 29, 1865, in HI, pp. 910; Wilson, Honor's Voice, pp. 5967.

"studied with n.o.body": AL, "Scripps autobiography," in CW, IV, p. 65.