Family, neighbors, and schoolmates recalled that his reading included the King James Bible, Aesop's Fables, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Mason Locke Weems's The Life of Washington, and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.As a teen, Lincoln took responsibility for chores, and customarily gave his father all earnings from work outside the home until age 21. Lincoln was tall, strong, and athletic and became adept at using an ax. Exploiting his embellished frontier legend (clearing land and splitting fence rails), Lincoln's supporters adopted the label of 'The Rail Candidate'. In 1860, Lincoln described himself: 'I am in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and gray eyes.' Michael Martinez wrote about the effective imaging of Lincoln by his campaign.
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