This is a  rich and romantic chronicle of  Abraham Lincoln's years as a very young man in Illinois.This is the young Lincoln that few men know. The lank, rugged young man whose giant frame reminded one Illinois citizen of the ground plan for a long horse!. And here is the picture of a young Lincoln against the homespun background of a frontier town. The story not without humor of a young man of 22 trying to see where he fitted in to the scheme of things.