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Excerpt from The Environment of Abraham Lincoln in Indiana, With an Account of the De Bruler Family, Vol. 8: Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume 8, Number 3
William Henry Milburn, the blind man eloquent, and Judge James Hall lived among the western people, were in sympathy with them, and have left truthful descriptions of the pioneer in the old Northwest, as well as in Kentucky, where the Indian wars during the Revolution were, at so great cost, won chiefly by the backwoodsmen of the Alleghenies. Milburn's eloquent and profound interpretation of the life and character of the westerner, his description of the characteristics of the western mind and of the schooling of the wilderness are true to life, as are also Judge James Hall's fine descriptions of the western people among whom he lived.9 We have also fair and im partial accounts of the backwoodsmen of the Alleghenies by Roosevelt, to whom the descendants of the Men of the Western Waters, among whom are the active members of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, recognize a last ing obligation.
The western type of mind and character was fully developed in Abraham Lincoln. The educating influence of wilderness life affected him in his development in Spencer County from the age of seven to twenty-one long before the latter age he showed a maturity far above that of the average man of twenty-one years.
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