It’s hard to believe, but if it were not for Honest Abe, America would never have had: 1. Daniel Freeman 2. Little House on the Prairie 3. Marty Robbins’s song “A Hundred and Sixty Acres” 4. The Oklahoma Land Rush 5. Shane, and about a zillion other novels and movies about homesteaders feuding with ranchers That’s right. Because 150 years ago, on May 20, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln—undoubtedly a bit preoccupied with a little thing called the Civil War threatening the s
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