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President Abraham Lincoln: Families
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Five years later the elder Lincoln sold his lands and carried his family into the untracked wilderness of Indiana across the Ohio River. It was late fall, and there was time only to pull together a crude three-sided shelter of logs, brush, and leaves. The open side was protected by a blazing fire which had to be replenished at all times. The only water was nearly a mile away. For food the family depended almost entirely on game.
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Because it was winter, Thomas Lincoln immediately built a crude, three-sided shelter that served as home until he could build a log cabin. A fire at the open end of the shelter kept the family warm. At this time southern Indiana was a heavily forested wilderness. Lincoln described it as a "wild region, with many bears and other wild animals in the woods." Later some of Nancy Hanks's relatives moved near the site the Lincolns had chosen, and a thriving frontier community gradually developed.
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The base of the mausoleum consists of an entryway with corridors leading to either side to the chamber in the rear where the President and his family are interred. Outside the front door is a bronze sculpture of the face of Lincoln by Gutzon Borglum, designer of the colossal Presidential figures at Mount Rushmore.
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