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thinking more about it. With love to all the family,
from your affectionate grandson, R.L.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER
BOOK
ONE

I Which Describes the Journey of Samson Henry Traylor and His Wife
and Their Two Children and Their Dog Sambo through the Adirondack
Wilderness in 1831 on Their Way to the Land of Plenty, and Especially
Their Adventures in Bear Valley and No Santa Claus Land.
Furthermore, It Describes the Soaping of the Brimsteads and the
Capture of the Veiled Bear
II Wherein Is Recorded the Vivid Impression Made upon the Travelers
by Their View of a Steam Engine and of the Famous Erie Canal.
Wherein, Also, Is a Brief Account of Sundry Curious Characters Met
on the Road and at a Celebration of the Fourth of July on the Big
Waterway
III Wherein the Reader Is Introduced to Offut's Store and His Clerk
Abe, and the Scholar Jack Kelso and His Cabin and His Daughter Bim,
and Gets a First Look at Lincoln
IV Which Presents Other Log Cabin Folk and the First Steps in the
Making of a New Home and Certain Incapacities of Abe
V In Which the Character of Bim Kelso Flashes Out in a Strange
Adventure that Begins the Weaving of a Long Thread of Romance
VI Which Describes the Lonely Life in a Prairie Cabin and a Stirring
Adventure on the Underground Railroad about the Time It Began
Operations
VII In Which Mr. Eliphalet Biggs Gets Acquainted with Bim Kelso and
Her Father
VIII Wherein Abe Makes Sundry Wise Remarks to the Boy Harry and
Announces His Purpose to Be a Candidate for the Legislature at Kelso's
Dinner Party
IX In Which Bim Kelso Makes History, While Abe and Harry and
Other Good Citizens of New Salem Are Making an Effort to that End
in the Indian War

BOOK TWO
X In Which Abe and Samson Wrestle and Some Raiders Come to Burn
and Stay to Repent
XI In Which Abe, Elected to the Legislature, Gives What Comfort He
Can to Ann Rutledge in the Beginning of Her Sorrows. Also He Goes
to Springfield for New Clothes and Is Astonished by Its Pomp and the
Change in Eli
XII Which Continues the Romance of Abe and Ann until the Former
Leaves New Salem to Begin His Work in the Legislature. Also It
Describes the Coloneling of Peter Lukins
XIII Wherein the Route of the Underground Railroad Is Surveyed and
Samson and Harry Spend a Night in the Home of Henry Brimstead and
Hear Surprising Revelations, Confidentially Disclosed, and Are
Charmed by the Personality of His Daughter Annabel
XIV In Which Abe Returns from Vandalia and Is Engaged to Ann, and
Three Interesting Slaves Arrive at the Home of Samson Traylor, Who,
with Harry Needles, Has an Adventure of Much Importance on the
Underground Road
XV Wherein Harry and Abe Ride Up to Springdale and Visit Kelso's
and Learn of the Curious Lonesomeness of Eliphalet Biggs
XVI Wherein Young Mr. Lincoln Safely Passes Two Great Danger
Points and Turns into the Highway of His Manhood
BOOK THREE
XVII Wherein Young Mr. Lincoln Betrays Ignorance of Two Highly
Important Subjects, in Consequence of Which He Begins to Suffer
Serious Embarrassment
XVIII In Which Mr. Lincoln, Samson and Harry Take a Long Ride
Together and the Latter Visit the Flourishing Little City of Chicago

XIX Wherein Is One of the Many Private Panics Which Followed the
Bursting of the Bubble of Speculation
XX Which Tells of the Settling of Abe Lincoln and the Traylors in the
Village of Springfield and of Samson's Second Visit to Chicago
XXI Wherein a Remarkable School of Political Science Begins Its
Sessions in the Rear of Joshua Speed's Store. Also at Samson's Fireside
Honest Abe Talks of the Authority of the Law and the Right of
Revolution, and Later Brings a Suit against Lionel Davis
XXII Wherein Abe Lincoln Reveals His Method of Conducting a
Lawsuit in the Case of Henry Brimstead et al. vs. Lionel Davis
XXIII Which Presents the Pleasant Comedy of Individualism in the
New Capital, and the Courtship of Lincoln and Mary Todd
XXIV Which Describes a Pleasant Holiday and a Pretty Stratagem
XXV Being a Brief Memoir by the Honorable and Venerable Man
Known in These Pages as Josiah Traylor, Who Saw the Great
Procession of Events between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson
and Especially the Making and the End of Lincoln

A MAN FOR THE AGES

BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I
WHICH DESCRIBES THE JOURNEY OF SAMSON HENRY
TRAYLOR AND HIS WIFE AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN AND
THEIR DOG SAMBO THROUGH THE ADIRONDACK
WILDERNESS IN 1831 ON THEIR WAY TO THE LAND OF
PLENTY, AND ESPECIALLY THEIR ADVENTURES IN BEAR

VALLEY AND NO SANTA CLAUS LAND. FURTHERMORE, IT
DESCRIBES THE SOAPING OF THE BRIMSTEADS AND THE
CAPTURE OF THE