Presenting fifty Abraham Lincoln stories—some typical and loved, a few clean and unexpected—Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: Lincoln’s Springfield is a gently researched, richly illustrated consultant to the Springfield, Illinois, destinations at the trying to find Lincoln tale path. Created by means of the trying to find Lincoln background Coalition, this path comprises greater than 2 hundred illustrated storyboards published at websites of importance to Lincoln’s lifestyles and profession throughout fifty-two groups in Illinois. The storyboards attach Lincoln-related stories to the geographical destinations the place they happened, giving viewers, and now readers, a journey of the social and cultural panorama of Lincoln’s nineteenth-century global whereas revealing the very human Lincoln recognized via associates and associates.

This publication celebrates the path as a wealthy ancient source, that includes the unique storyboards produced for Springfield and together with twelve extra tales and greater than one hundred fifty illustrations. attractive tales within the ebook convey Lincoln’s Springfield to existence: Lincoln created controversy together with his Temperance handle, which he brought in a church on Fourth road in February 1842. He all of sudden married Mary Todd in her sister’s domestic at the fringe of Springfield later that yr. The Lincolns’ sons used to harness canines and cats to small wagons and force them round the dust streets of city. while Lincoln visited his dentist, he utilized his personal chloroform, as the perform of analgesia used to be now not but universal. He reportedly performed the ball video game Fives in a downtown alley whereas expecting information of his presidential nomination. And boxing heavyweight champion John C. Heenan visited the presidential candidate in October 1860. via texts, historical images and pictures, and maps, together with one keyed to the tale destinations in downtown Springfield, readers of this interesting quantity are invited to visualize social and cultural landscapes which were misplaced in time.