Abe Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was born in the wilds of Kentucky in 1809. When Abe was two his parents moved him and his sister Sarah to Knob Creek. Luckily the Cumberland Trail ran close to the cabin and Abe was able to talk to travelers that passed by to see where they have been and ask questions of where they were going. Abe loved to learn, and his love for reading was even greater. When Abe was seven his parents picked up everything they owned and again moved. They walked and rode a hundred miles to Indiana and crossed the Ohio River on a makeshift ferry his father and him built from logs. When they claimed their land in Indiana there was no cabin. They made a half-faced camp of branches that was open to the wilderness. They only thing they had to protect them was a fire that they kept going to keep the wild animals away. Finally, after several months in the half-faced camp settlers finally arrived to help build a cabin...