When the wagon stopped in the middle of the Indiana wilderness seven year old Abe Lincoln saw only miles of dense forest This was not a farm Not yet
First his family needed to clear a path THWACK Abe helped his father fell trees In Lincoln's day more than half of Americans lived on farms
Swish THWUMP He cleared brush He pulled stumps yah He plowed fields Soon they had a farm that was better than the one they left behind in Kentucky But farm life didn't always go smoothly
