Lincoln and the Logan County Court Houses

[Wild Bill]

This notion that Lincoln stayed at country inns on weekends while riding circuit while the other lawyers and judges went home to family reminded me of CA Tripp's "Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln." So, I looked it up. I found two references to this. One on pp. 157-58, in which Tripp credits this idea that Abe refused to go home on weekends came from Herndon's "Life of Lincoln,"249. The other was on Tripp's pp. 212-13. Sorry to butt in here, but I remembered this as one of the indicators that Lincoln had an unhappy marriage and could barely stand to be home with Mary. It was also allegedly an indication of his bi-sexualism, Tripp asserted. Take it for what you all think it is worth. Jean Baker in her intro to Tripp's book calls his assertions about Mary and their marriage as "brutally harsh" and "unfair" (p.xxi)