Download or read book Quantrill s Gold written by Bob Herzberg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-11-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas/Missouri border, 1880. A time of relative peace, but war crimes and lingering hatreds still lurk beneath the surface. When ex-outlaw Hoge Farrell is chased into a lonely stage-station one stormy night, he meets Garth, an ex-Confederate guerrilla who has returned to retrieve a cache of gold buried during the Civil War. Suddenly, the young Texan is plunged into a world of greed, double-crosses and violence as different factions with their own agendas seek to possess Quantrill's Gold! Reviews of Bob Herzberg's non-fiction Shooting scripts: From Pulp Western to Film. "Detailed...excellent...fascinating...impossible to put down...fills a long-needed requirement, insightful...amazing....read and enjoy."---Wrangler's Roost Savages & Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians in Westerns. "An important addition to the bookshelves of film scholars and western buffs."---Western Writers of America

Download or read book The Devil Knows How To Ride written by Edward E. Leslie and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1998-08-22 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (1837–1865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio schoolteacher from a staunchly Unionist family into a virulent pro-slavery Confederate soldier and the most feared and despised guerrilla chieftain of the Civil War. This groundbreaking work includes the most accurate account ever written of the 1863 Lawrence, Kansas massacre (the greatest atrocity of the Civil War), when Quantrill and 450 raiders torched the Unionist town and executed roughly 200 unarmed, unresisting men and teenage boys. It also details the postwar outlaw careers of those who rode with him—Frank and Jesse James, and Cole Younger. No other history so fully penetrates the myth of a cardboard-cutout psychopath to expose Quantrill in all his brutality and human complexity.

Download or read book Gold Pieces written by Gary S. Gill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-10-21 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Pieces is a novel of short stories set against the background of Missouri communities like Harrisonville, Sedalia, Rocheport and Clinton. Like central character Ben Cooper/John Paden, a veteran of the Civil War, his descendants return from their wars searching to re-start their lives but never the same. Gold Pieces examines the impact of war within the confines of a particular family.

Download or read book QUANTRILL s RAIDERS in North Texas and Grayson County Texas written by Natalie Clountz Bauman and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When one thinks of William Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, and men like the James and Younger Brothers, they may automatically think of Missouri and Kansas. But Quantrill's Raiders are a fascinating part of Grayson County and North Texas history as well. This book will explore their activities in North Texas, both during, and after the Civil War. This writer's purpose is not to overtly try to take one side over the other, concerning the morality of that war, or those who fought in it. Many original sources will be presented from the time of the war and shortly afterward explaining the times. Both sides will be presented and the humanity of the people involved will be taken into consideration.CONTENTS:Section One - Quantrill's Raiders in North TexasIntroduction Pg 7-10A short introduction and overview of Quantrill's Raiders in North Texas Pages 11 - 20Quantrill's 1861 Trip to North Texas and Grayson County Pg 21-25Quantrill's Raiders in 1862 Pg 25-28Quantrill In 1863 -1864 Pg 29-33Collapse Of Union Jail In Kansas City Pg 34-38Quantrill's Trip to Texas in 1863 In "Noted Guerrillas, or the Warfare of the Border" Pg 38-45Quantrill's Raiders In Grayson County Texas, Good Guys or Bad? Pg 46-54 Tales of a Guerrilla Warrior A defense of Quantrill's men from one of them himself, William H. Gregg Quantrill's Raiders Popularity in North Texas Pg 55-64 Potts Family Gives Quantrill a Thumbs UPQuantrill's Raiders Not A Favorite of Their Commander GEN. McCullochAn Account of the Baxter Springs Massacre from William Gregg Pg 65-67Quantrill's Raiders North of Pottsboro in Fall 1863 Pg 68-81Brogdon Springs, Spout Springs and the Hanging Tree Quantrill Camped at the Springs Description of Quantrill's Camp Lookout THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE THAT HISTORY FORGOT -THE BATTLE FOR TEXAS - THE BATTLE ON THE RED RIVER Pg 82-104General Blunt vs. Quantrill; and Quantrill in Texas Preston Bend's Paul Revere Was a Lady - Sophia Coffee Butts Porter Union General Blunt Continues to Plot Revenge Against Quantrill General Blunt Inserts Spies in Quantrill's Raiders in Texas as Would-Be Assassins Historic Brogdon Cemetery, Civil War Burial Ground Quantrill's Raiders In Sherman Pg 105-126Quantrill's Raiders March from the Indian Territory to Georgetown and Sherman Texas in the Fall and Winter of 1863-64. by O. S. BartonQuantrill Faces His Toughest Challenge - The Women Back Home Quantrill's Raiders Ride Rough Shod In (And Over) Sherman Quantrill's Golden Treasure in Sherman Sherman Merchant (Hall) Plays Host to QuantrillSherman as it Appeared to Quantrill's Men in the 1860sThe Breakup of Quantrill's Raiders Pg 127-185Bill Anderson's Sherman Romance Helps Break up the BandThe Killing of Major Butts of Preston Bend Disintegration of Quantrill's Raiders Demoralization of the Band - Arrest and Escape of Quantrill Jernigan's Thicket And the brush men - McCulloch's and Quantrill's Feud Quantrill's Raiders in Kentucky TownAn Account of The Group's Break -up - William H. Gregg - A Little Dab of History Remembrances of Quantrill's Raiders in North Texas by his MenThe Guerrillas Trips to North Texas and Sherman in Fall 1864 - 1866 by John Edwards and Capt. Harrison Trow William Quantrill, Civil War Horse Whisperer?The Death of Old Charley, Harbinger of Quantrill's Death?Paris, Texas Man Was at the Bedside of Quantrill When He DiedSection Two: Sketches of Quantrill's Raiders Pg 186-369 "Bloody Bill" William T. Anderson Pg 187-202 James Monroe "Jim" Anderson Pg 202-203 Capt Francis Marion "Dave" Poole Pg 204-205 Jesse Woodson James Pg 206-244 Alexander Franklin "Frank" James Pg 245-271 Cole, Bob John & Jim Younger Pg 271-294 Levi Boone "Lee" McMurtry Pg 295-305 Allen Parmer Pg 306-320 James "Jim Crow" Chiles Pg 321-323 Jim Cummins Pg 324-329 The Maupin Brothers Isaiah Kimberlin Francis Marion "Tuck" Hill Myra Maybelle Shirley "Belle" Starr

Download or read book Quantrill s War written by Duane Schultz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For career criminal William Clarke Quantrill, the American Civil War was an opportunity to practice legitimately what he loved most: theft, destruction, and murder ... [This] book deals with [his life and] Quantrill's bloodiest battle, the four-hour sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, where he ordered the massacre of 185 men and boys"--Jacket.

Download or read book Quantrill and the Border Wars written by William Elsey Connelley and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jesse James written by T.J. Stiles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure. "Carries the reader scrupulously through James’s violent, violent life.... When [Stiles]… calls Jesse James the ‘last rebel of the Civil War; he correctly defines the theme that ruled Jesse’s life." —Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove via The New Republic Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Missouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause—in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.

Download or read book Slocum and Quantrill written by Jake Logan and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful woman lures Slocum into fighting a new civil war.

Download or read book True Grit written by Charles Portis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling classic frontier adventure novel that inspired two award-winning films! Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and became the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and, in 2010, a new version starring Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father’s blood. With one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the killer into Indian Territory. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through.

Download or read book Confederate Guerrilla Sue Mundy written by Thomas Shelby Watson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-12-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864, George D. Prentice, editor of the pro-Union Louisville Daily Journal, created the persona of Sue Mundy, a Civil War guerrilla who was in actuality a young man named Marcellus Jerome Clarke. This volume offers an in-depth, historically accurate account of Clarke's exploits in Kentucky during the Civil War. The work begins with a summary of Kentucky's prewar position: primarily pro-Union yet decidedly anti-Lincoln. The author then discusses the ways in which this paradox gave rise to the guerrilla threat that terrorized Kentuckians during the final years of the war. Special emphasis is placed on previously unknown facts, names and deeds with dialogue taken directly from testimony in court-martial proceedings. While the main focus of the work is Clarke himself, other perpetrators of guerrilla warfare including William Clarke Quantrill, Sam Berry and Henry Magruder are also covered, as are guerrilla hunters Edwin Terrell and James Bridgewater. Previously unpublished photographs accompany this fascinating Civil War history.

Download or read book Truman written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-08-20 with total page 1409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.

Download or read book A Dark Place to Die written by Ed Chatterton and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark, gritty police procedural -- the first in the Detective Inspector Frank Keane series. On a freezing October morning, Detective Inspector Frank Keane is called to the scene of a crime on Liverpool's shoreline.The body of what looks like a man, brutally tortured and burned, has been tied to a pole on the beach. With very little evidence to go on, Keane and his partner, DS Emily Harris, rely on their gut feeling that this murder is gang-related and their investigation takes them, once again, into the murky underworld of organised crime. Over in Australia, ex-Liverpool Police detective Menno Koopman -- Frank's former boss -- is enjoying his retirement. He has no plans to ever return to England but when the body on the beach turns out to be his son, Stevie -- whom he only ever met once as a baby -- he knows he has to go back and seek justice for his horrific murder. But there's a fine line between justice and revenge.

Download or read book A Savage Conflict written by Daniel E. Sutherland and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support for state and national governments and diminishing the trust citizens had in their officials to protect them.

Download or read book Brigham Young written by John G. Turner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West.

Download or read book Quantrill s Guerrillas written by Richard S. Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford written by Ron Hansen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful novel of the infamous Western outlaw and his killer: “The best blend of fiction and history I’ve read in a long while” (John Irving). By age thirty-four, Jesse James was already one of the most notorious and admired men in America. Bank robber, train bandit, gang leader, killer, and beloved son of Missouri— James’s many epithets live on in newspapers and novels alike. As his celebrity was reaching its apex, James met Robert Ford, the brother of a James gang member—an awkward, antihero-worshipping twenty-year-old with stars in his eyes. The young man’s fascination with the legend borders on jealous obsession: While Ford wants to ride alongside James as his most-trusted confidant, sharing his spotlight is not enough. As a bond forms between the two men, Ford realizes that the only way he’ll ever be as powerful as his idol is to become him; he must kill James and take his mantle. In the striking novel that inspired the film of the same name starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, bestselling author Ron Hansen retells a classic Wild West story that has long captured the nation’s imagination, and breathes new life into the final days and ignoble death of an iconic American man.

Download or read book William Clarke Quantrill written by Albert Castel and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: