KEYSTONE XL

摘要

In the spring of 1829, a 20-year old Abraham Lincoln pushed off from the banks of the Ohio River on a flatboat full of produce and hogs. Joining him was friend Allen Gentry, son of a local merchant who had commissioned the two young men to deliver the cargo to market. Lincoln and his friend set off from Indiana, passing the new state of Illinois, created just nine years earlier, but still very much an isolated frontier land. Railroads would not come to the state for decades, and not a single road connected Illinois with any other state. The 200 people living 400 miles north on the shores of Lake Michigan would not form the town of Chicago for another four years.