"For thirty years and more I planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face."--Preface.

"The first edition of Abraham Lincoln; the prairie years, is limited to 260 copies on imported Dutch charcoal rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which 250 copies are for sale." " ... with 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters ..." Includes index.

Vol. 1-2, The prairie years--Vol. 3-6, The war years.