February 29, 2024
BSA Vintage Boy Scout Historical Medal -Lincoln Trail New Salem to Springfield
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The trail was from where Lincoln lived (New Salem) to where he would borrow law books (Springfield) some 20 miles. Back side of medal mentions that "Scout John Gudgeon walked in Lincoln's footsteps 11-25-62". Case is not included. An interesting historical note to this trail worth reading for Lincoln admirers. The Lincoln Trail Hike In 1926, R. Allan Stephens, a former Scout Commissioner of Springfield, Illinois, originated the idea of a Lincoln Trail Hike. At that time, there were no official Boy Scout trails in the United States. Mr. Stephens believed that Boy Scouts would acquire a greater appreciation of the obstacles Abraham Lincoln overcame in his rise to the presidency if they also walked the same 20-mile route followed by Lincoln from New Salem to Springfield. After traveling about like a “piece of floating driftwood,” Lincoln took up residence at New Salem in July of 1831. For the first time in his life, he was living by himself. At the age of 22, he began his career as a struggling store clerk and mill hand. When he left New Salem on April 15, 1837, to become the law partner of John Todd Stuart in Springfield, the new capital city for Illinois, Lincoln had learned many things and worked at various jobs as well as being a successful scholar. True, he still had some rough edges, but he had been a captain in the Black Hawk
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