[Illustration: The story of Abraham Lincoln is ever fresh. It appeals
to the imagination and grips the vision of many people in various
ways. Perhaps that is why millions of visitors make pilgrimages to the
humble abodes in which he lived and the places he frequented.
_Photograph Courtesy Chicago Historical Society._]
[Illustration: “Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so
great as that of being truly esteemed by my fellow men, rendering
myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying
this ambition, is yet to be developed.”
—_Address to Sangamon County, March 9, 1832._]