Excerpt from Brief: Prepared by the Warrick County Lincoln Route Association and Presented to and Filed With the Indiana Lincoln Memorial Highway CommissionWe presume that the first inquiry of the Memorial Commission will be as to what roads were available and the most practical and probable for wagon travel from the site where the Lincolns lived in 1830 to the Illinois boundary line at or near Vincennes. In this inquiry we must remember that all of Southern Indiana in 1880 was covered with primeval forest, except here and there along the navigable streams where the early settlers had cleared a part of the forests and established civilized settlements and, while many trails for pedestrians and horseback travel lead from one settlement to another, there were very few of the trails that had been cut out and used to such extent that they were fit for wagon travel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.