It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond " readin', writin', and cipherin' St. Nicholas - Página 24editado por - 1906Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1927 - 724 páginas
...experiences in Perry County, Indiana, was aware of the situation, as he later "reminisces": "It was a wild region with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required "Ibid., p. 114; Venable, Beginnings... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 páginas
...Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond "readin, writin, and cipherin," to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand latin,... | |
| Charles E. Schutz - 1977 - 364 páginas
...Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond "readin", writin', and cipherin' " to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin... | |
| Isaac Newton Arnold - 1994 - 492 páginas
...Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the state came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools,so called,but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond "readtn', wrtlln', antcipherin'"'... | |
| Frank Freidel - 1998 - 98 páginas
...Hanks. . . . My father . . . removed from Kentucky to . . . Indiana, in my eighth year. ... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. ... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... | |
| Douglas L. Wilson - 1997 - 216 páginas
...biographical significance. 8. "It was a wild region," Lincoln wrote of his boyhood home in Indiana, "with many bears and other wild animals, still in the woods. There I grew up." Abraham Lincoln to JW Fell, Dec. 20, 1859, in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basier,... | |
| Paul M. Zall - 2003 - 220 páginas
...families. DECEMBER 1816 We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods 9 ... an unbroken forest. Indiana came into the Union December 1816. Lincoln would later say he never... | |
| Eugene M. Wait - 1999 - 300 páginas
...A few cattle and sheep were raised. Hunting was often resorted to for meat. Lincoln wrote, "It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the wood." Abe shot wild turkey and deer, but he did not like hunting, and soon foreswore hunting. His... | |
| Don Davenport - 2002 - 244 páginas
...EVANSVILLE FORT WAYNE MUNCIE * KEY LINCOLN CITIES » INDIANA CITIES PART 2 The INDIANA Wilderness "IT WAS A WILD REGION, WITH MANY BEARS AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS STILL IN THE WOODS." A. LINCOLN, 1860 "HERE I GREW UP. A. LINCOLN LINCOLN'S HOOSIER HOME 1816-1830 LINCOLN BOYHOOD NATIONAL... | |
| Lon Cantor - 2003 - 244 páginas
...family of the name of Hanks My father... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher. .... | |
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