Before he was on the Five Dollar Bill, before his words were memorized by American schoolchildren through the decades and just a few years before he was hailed as the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln was a candidate for President…and it wasn’t looking so good. He undertook a trip to Kansas to see for himself the violence and legacy of popular sovereignty, and maybe score a few extra delegates to the upcoming Republican convention. A rare look at candidate Lincoln and his first trip to the west.
Within the Realm 