Quantrill & the Border Wars - Couverture rigide

Connelley, William Elsey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0765196581 ISBN 13 : 9780765196583

Editeur : Smithmark Publishers, 1996

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Book by Connelley William Elsey

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American history when two antagonistic fundamentals of government contended for supremacy. The devotion of adherents to respective principles was fanatical and fierce, and unusual animosities were engendered. By stormy conventions the two ideas of the destiny of our common country were reconciled in our growth to the Mississippi. Newly bound and hedged about, they were flung upon the soil of Missouri. But the compromise of a principle is a crime, and the feeble barriers set by time-serving statesmen became tense and strained. The advance-guard of a higher national life burst them asunder and emerged upon the Great Plains. There the contest to maintain itself became a grapple for the existence of the government, and ended in civil war. The story of the border is the history of preliminary forays and the shock of army upon army in the national contest. It covers ten years. In wealth of romantic incidents, stirring adventures, hair-breadth escapes, sanguinary ambuscades, deadly encounters, individual vengeance, relentless desolation of towns and communities, and bloody murder, no other part of America can compare with it. Some future Scott will make himself immortal by telling this wonderful story. This is the first effort, it is believed, to make any serious study of the conditions prevailing on the border. The state of society about Lawrence as shown in the year 1860 may be accepted as representative of the general conditions found in Kansas up to the Civil War, and no attempt to describe them has been found. The state of disorder in Missouri was the result in some degree of the reaction upon itself of its course inK
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smithmark Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0765196581
• ISBN 13: 9780765196583
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 540
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible