Marching armies, cavalry raids, guerrilla warfare, massacres, towns and farms in flames- the American Civil War, 1861-1865? No- Kansas, 1854-1861. Before there was Bull Run or Gettysburg, there was Black Jack and Oswatomie. Long before events in Fort Sumter ignited the War Betwe…
Nowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri?and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William Anderson. For a brief but dramatic period, "Bloody Bill" played the leading role in the most violent arena of the entire war?and did so with a vicious abandon t…
Details the 1863 attack on Lawrence, Kansas by William Quantrill and his Confederate irregulars.
Details the 1863 attack on Lawrence, Kansas by William Quantrill and his Confederate irregulars.
Drawing from diaries, letters, and memoirs, tells the history of westward expansion and the ensuing wars with powerful Indian tribes barring the way.
Drawing from diaries, letters, and memoirs, tells the history of westward expansion and the ensuing wars with powerful Indian tribes barring the way.