Prairie-Town Boy is the autobiography of the poet and historian Carl Sandburg, written when he was in his seventies.
Adapted for young readers from the longer Always the Young Strangers, which the New York Times called the greatest autobiography ever written by an American, the book tells of Sandburg's boyhood in Galesburg, Illinois, and continues through his entrance into college. In these memoirs, Sandburg.....
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