Research Catalog
- Title
- The shadows rise : Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge legend / John Evangelist Walsh.
- Author
- Walsh, John Evangelist, 1927-2015
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E457.35 .W185 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
- Description
- x, 187 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In recent decades, the Ann Rutledge story has been treated as mythical rather than as an account of Abraham Lincoln's first but doomed love affair. Here the author restores Ann Rutledge to her rightful place in the historical record.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-179) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ghost town -- Discovering Ann -- The legend grows -- Wavering memories -- She had an angel's heart -- Lincoln told me so -- The Rutledges speak -- A parade of witnesses -- The matter of Mary Owens -- His heart in her grave? -- The original Kirkham's grammar.
- ISBN
- 0252020111 (cl : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^92034284^
- OCLC
- 26721542
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library