Quantrill and the Border Wars
by Connelley, William Elsey
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good - Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pageant Book Company, 1956 Book. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Large 8vo. ix, 542 pp, Introduction by Homer Croy; Preface; List of b&w Maps and Illustrations; I. The Quantrill Family; II. Early Life of Quantrill; III. From Ohio to Kansas; IV. Quantrill in Kansas and Utah; V. Quantrill as a Kansas Teacher; VI. Quantrill as Charley Hart -- Lawrence; VII. Quantrill as Charley Hart -- A Border Ruffian at Lawrance; VIII. Quantrill as Charley Hart -- A Jayhawker at Lawrence; IX & X. Quantrill as Charley Hart -- The Traitor -- The Morgan Walker Raid; XI. Quantrill the Frosworn -- What He Told the Missourians; XII. Aftermath of the Morgan Walker Raid; XIII. Quantrill's Return to Kansas; XIV. Quantrill Becomes a Guerrilla; XV. Conditions in Missouri; XVI. Quantril ecomes Norotious -- Aubry and Other Skirmishes; XVII. Quantrill Outlawed -- Big Blue Bridge -- Tate House; XVIII. Quantrill, The Guerrilla Chief -- Pink Hill -- The Clark Farm -- At Sni Ford -- The Lowe House; XIX. Quantrill in the Summer of 1862; XX. Quantrill at Independence; XXI. Quantrill A Confederate Captain; XXII. Quantrill Goes to Richmond, Virginia; XXIII-XXVIII. The Lawrence Massacre; XXIX. The Lawrence Massacre -- Incidents of the Massacre; XXX. The Lawrence Massacre -- Departure of the Guerrillas; XXXI. The Lawrence Massacre -- Pursuit of the Guerrillas; XXXII. The Baxter Springs Massacre; XXXIV. Quantrill in the Summer of 1864; XXXV. Quantrill Leaves Missouri; XXXVI. Quantrill in Kentucky; XXXVII. Quantrill the Fatalist; XXXVIII. The Last Battle; XXXIX. Death. Not a Book Club Edition. Reprint 1956. Lightly age-toned text block edges and gutters, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004093
- Title
- Quantrill and the Border Wars
- Author
- Connelley, William Elsey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Pageant Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- U.S. CIVIL WAR BIOGRAPHY QUANTRILL WILLIAM CLARKE (1837-1865) CONFEDERATE GUERRILLA BORDER WARS
- Bookseller catalogs
- U.S. CIVIL WAR;
- Size
- Large 8vo
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