INDEX	Page Number
SALUTATORY	Page 12
INTRODUCTORY	Page 13
CHAPTER I
Abraham Lincoln - illustration	Page 16
Reminiscences of Lincoln	Page 17
CHAPTER II
His First Love	Page 23
His Second Love	Page 24
Lincoln's Third Love	Page 30
Lincoln's Residence at Springfield, IL - illustration	Page 31
Lincoln's Marriage	Page 33
CHAPTER III
From Flat Boat to White House	Page 38
Shirt Sleeve Court in the Corn Field	Page 41
Lincoln Attends a Circus	Page 46
Lincoln's Monument at Springfield, Il - illustration	Page 47
President Lincoln's First Dollar	Page 51
CHAPTER IV
Lincoln at Salem	Page 53
Lincoln as a Lawyer, on Horseback	Page 58
Lincoln's Old Home at Salem, Illinois - illustration	Page 62
Lincoln's Appearance	Page 63
As A Lawyer	Page 65
How He Traded Horses	Page 66
He Preferred Grant's Whisky	Page 66
Lincoln's Apt Reply	Page 67
CHAPTER V
Ross and Lincoln	Page 68
Anecdotes of Lincoln	Page 71
Lincoln's Early Life	Page 75
CHAPTER VI
Lincoln's Old Home	Page 79
"The Three Graces" - illustration	Page 84
How Lincoln Cured Charles Revis from Swearing	Page 85
Lincoln as Postmaster at Salem	Page 87
Biographical Note of Lincoln	Page 90
CHAPTER VII
Lincoln's Religious Belief	Page 92
Abe Lincoln and Slicky Bill Green	Page 95
Trial of Duff Armstrong	Page 98
Duff Armstrong's Statement	Page 100
CHAPTER VIII
Peter Cartright - illustration	Page 102
The Backwoods Preacher-Birth of Cartright	Page 103
Judge of Human Nature	Page 107
Cartright at a Dance	Page 108
A Fatal Accident	Page 110
CHAPTER IX
Anecdotes of Cartright	Page 111
CHAPTER X
Riding His Circuit	Page 115
Cartright gets a little Boozy	Page 117
CHAPTER XI
The Baptists	Page 121
The Campbellites	Page 123
The Presbyterians	Page 124
Methodist Church	Page 124
Old Fashioned Camp-Meeting	Page 125
Peter Cartright's Tomb	Page 128
CHAPTER XII
Menard County	Page 131
Stories of Pioneer Days	Page 134
The Cold Day in 1837	Page 136
CHAPTER XIII
The Green Family	Page 138
A Pioneer Gone	Page 141
The Watkins Family	Page 142
CHAPTER XIV
Plat of Salem in 1837 - illustration	Page 146
Explanation of Plat of Salem	Page 147
Old Salem on the Hill	Page 148
The West End of Salem	Page 152
Old Salem Under the Hill	Page 155
CHAPTER XV
Old Settler's Day	Page 160
The Founders of Petersburg	Page 165
A Trip to Petersburg	Page 166
In Memoriam	Page 168
CHAPTER XVI
History of Petersburg Sixty Years Ago	Page 170
CHAPTER XVII
Early Times in the Capital of Menard	Page 178
Petersburg in the Forties	Page 184
Old Fashioned Barbecues	Page 189
CHAPTER XVIII
Recollections of Presidential Campaigns	Page 192
Fish at Salem Dam	Page 195
My First Pair of Boots	Page 196
The Old Schoolhouse on the Hill	Page 198
A Deer Hunt	Page 199
George Kirby of Sandridge	Page 200
CHAPTER XIX
Old Time Stories	Page 203
Judge Joseph H. Pillsbury	Page 206
Judge Joseph H. Pillsbury - illustration	Page 206
CHAPTER XX
Reminiscences of Menard County	Page 208
Early Settlements	Page 211
Lincoln and the Bull	Page 216
CHAPTER XXI
Anecdotes of Menard	Page 217
CHAPTER XXII
Navigation of the Sangamon	Page 222
Warlike Spirit of Menard County	Page 223
Some Early Settlers	Page 226
CHAPTER XXIII
City of Petersburg	Page 239
Athens	Page 245
A Letter from H. L. Ross	Page 246
Harvey Lee Ross - illustration	Page 247