the Sangamon River from New Salem hilltop; Lincoln arrived here in a canoe, took a flatboat from here to New Orleans, and twice piloted a steamboat around this bend. | Northern Illinois University Digital Library

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Title: the Sangamon River from New Salem hilltop; Lincoln arrived here in a canoe, took a flatboat from here to New Orleans, and twice piloted a steamboat around this bend.
Creator: Sandburg, Carl
Resource Type: still image
Genre/Form: photographs
Date Issued: 1925
Owning Institution: Northern Illinois University
Source Note: Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Subject: place
Lincoln
Lincoln's Biography
1818--1860
Identifier: sandburg177a