...tter end of Abe's boyhood would have been lost in the midst of tradition but for the store of information and recollections I was fortunate enough to secure from an interesting old lady whom I met in Indiana in 1865. She was the wife of Josiah Crawford --Blue Nose, as Abe had named him --and possessed rare accomplishments for a woman reared in the backwoods of Indiana. She was not only impressed wit...