Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-505) and index.
Contents:
"War to the knife" : the war over Kansas Territory, 1854-1861 -- "The blight that falls on remote generations" : Quantrill's family background and early years -- "Hard & scaly times" : Quantrill's western travels -- "Abolitionist and extreme pro-slavery man" : The Morgan Walker Raid -- "Desperate leader of the most desperate demons" : Quantrill becomes a guerrilla -- "The bulletts were whizing thick and fast around me" : ambushes and reprisals -- "Boys, we had better surrender!" : the raid on Independence -- "Meet slaughter with slaughter" : prelude to the Lawrence Massacre -- "The most diabolical deed of the whole war" : the Lawrence Massacre -- "We prayed that night or succor might come" : the pursuit of Quantrill and the issuing of Order no. 11 -- "Brave men and true were scattered and strewn over the ground" / the Baxter Springs Massacre -- "The history of every guerrilla chief has been the same" : the usurpation of Quantrill -- "A carnival of blood" : Anderson and Todd during the summer and fall of 1864 -- "Here's a sigh to those who love me" : the death of Quantrill -- "The outlaw is a deformity in the face of nayure" : the postwar years -- Epilogue: "What would his skull be worth to your society" : the bizarre history of Quantrill's remains.
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