Rick d west biography of abraham lincoln

The sixth South Dakota Biography Series book

"Lincoln’s identification with the American West has always been heavily inferred. He championed the West throughout his public life.

Rick d west biography of abraham lincoln

The Civil War and the absence of southern representatives in the federal Congress allowed Republicans to pass the Morrill Act in and a number of other acts that helped people and commercialized the American Far West. Richard W.

Etulain’s Abraham Lincoln: A Western Legacy seeks to show more explicitly Lincoln’s relationship with the West."—The Imaginative Conservative

"Etulain contends few writers have specifically focused on Lincoln and the West and his easy writing style and firm grasp of recently published secondary sources make the book highly readable.

. . . The premise behind Etulain's book is intriguing."—The Annals of Iowa

"Impressively informative and a work of meticulous and original scholarship, Abraham Lincoln: A Western Legacy is an extraordinary contribution to t