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Author:

Fraker, Guy C., 1938-

Title:

Lincoln's ladder to the presidency : the eighth judicial circuit / Guy C. Fraker ; with a foreword by Michael Burlingame.

Publisher:

Southern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xxii, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Career in law.
Law--Downstate Illinois--Downstate Illinois--History--19th century.
Illinois.--Circuit Court (8th Circuit)--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A new country -- As happy as he could be -- Purely and entirely a case lawyer -- Sangamon, Tazewell, Woodford -- Mclean, Livingston, Logan, Dewitt -- Piatt, Champagne, Vermilion -- Edgar, Shelby, Moultrie, Macon, Christian, Menard, Mason -- The 1840s and the early 1850s -- The awakenment -- The repeal ... aroused me again -- The tall sucker and the little giant -- A little sketch -- No stone unturned -- We saw him no more.

ISBN:

0809332019 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780809332014 (cloth : alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)772105412

LCCN:

2012005552

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)