Oertel, Kristen Tegtmeier. Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Olson, Kevin G. W. Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854–1894. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2012.
Pease, Jane H. and William H. The Fugitive Slave Law and Anthony Burns: A Problem in Law and Enforcement. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975.
Peterson, John M. John G. Haskell: Pioneer Kansas Architect. Lawrence: Douglas County Historical Society, 1984.
Piston, William Garrett and Richard Hatcher III. Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. New York: Vintage 2006.
Shafer, Donald R. After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004.
Sheridan, Richard B, Editor and Compiler. Freedom’s Crucible: The Underground Railroad in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas, 1854–1865. Lawrence: University of Kansas, Division of Continuing Education, 1998.
Speer, John. The Life of Gen James H. Lane: The Liberator of Kansas, with Corroborative Incident of Pioneer History. Garden City, KS: John Speer, Printer, 1897.
Starr, Stephen Z. Jennison’s Jayhawkers: A Civil War Cavalry Regiment and Its Commander. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1993.
Stephenson, Wendell Holmes. Publications of the Kansas State Historical Society Embracing the Political Career of James H. Lane. Volume 3. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1930.
Thayer, Eli. A History of the Kansas Crusade: Its Friends and Its Foes. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889.
Wilson, Don W. Governor Charles Robinson of Kansas. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1975.
Books in Electronic Format
Connelly, William E. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918. Transcribed by Carolyn Ward, for the Internet version, at: skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/945.html
Cordley, Richard, D. D. Sermons [by] Richard Cordley, D. D., For Thirty-Eight Years Pastor of Plymouth Church, Lawrence, Kansas. Boston, New York: Pilgrim Press, 1912. Available at: https://archive.org/details/sermonsbyrichard00cord
Doy, John. The Narrative of John Doy of Lawrence, Kansas: A Plain, Unvarnished Tale. Published privately, 1860. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/ABJ5091.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext http://books.google.com/books?id=AvZ5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
McCorkle, John and O. S. Barton. Three Years with Quantrill, A True Story. 1914. Amazon.com Kindle edition: www.amazon.com/Three-Years-Quantrill-Western-Frontier/dp/0806130563/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425597665&sr=1-1&keywords=john+mccorkle%2Bquantrill.
Fowler, O. S. A Home for All, or Gravel Wall and Octagon Made of Building New, Cheap, Convenient, Superior, and Adapted to Rich and Poor. New York: Fowler and Wells, 1854.
Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Griffin, Clifford S. The University of Kansas: A History. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 1974.
Hatcher, Richard W. III and William Garrett Piston, eds. Kansans at Wilson’s Creek: Soldiers Letters from the Campaign for Southwest Missouri. Volume 3, Studies of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. Springfield, MO: Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Foundation, 1993.
Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Johnson, Samuel A. The Battle Cry of Freedom: New England Emigrant Aid Company in the Kansas Crusade. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1950.
Jones, Lu Ann and Robert K. Sutton. The Life and Legacy of Robert Smalls of South Carolina’s Sea Islands. Fort Washington, PA: Eastern National, 2012.
Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper Brothers, 1956.
Lawrence, William. Life of Amos A. Lawrence: with Extracts from his Diary and Correspondence. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888.
Leslie, Edward E. The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders. New York: Random House, 1996.
May, Robert E. The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854–1861. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
______________. The Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Meyer, Howard N. The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1823–1911. New York: Da Capo, 2000.
Oertel, Kristen Tegtmeier. Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Olson, Kevin G. W. Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854–1894. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2012.
Pease, Jane H. and William H. The Fugitive Slave Law and Anthony Burns: A Problem in Law and Enforcement. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975.
Peterson, John M. John G. Haskell: Pioneer Kansas Architect. Lawrence: Douglas County Historical Society, 1984.
Piston, William Garrett and Richard Hatcher III. Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. New York: Vintage 2006.
Shafer, Donald R. After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004.
Sheridan, Richard B, Editor and Compiler. Freedom’s Crucible: The Underground Railroad in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas, 1854–1865. Lawrence: University of Kansas, Division of Continuing Education, 1998.
Speer, John. The Life of Gen James H. Lane: The Liberator of Kansas, with Corroborative Incident of Pioneer History. Garden City, KS: John Speer, Printer, 1897.
Starr, Stephen Z. Jennison’s Jayhawkers: A Civil War Cavalry Regiment and Its Commander. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1993.
Stephenson, Wendell Holmes. Publications of the Kansas State Historical Society Embracing the Political Career of James H. Lane. Volume 3. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1930.
Thayer, Eli. A History of the Kansas Crusade: Its Friends and Its Foes. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889.
Wilson, Don W. Governor Charles Robinson of Kansas. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1975.
Books in Electronic Format
Connelly, William E. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918. Transcribed by Carolyn Ward, for the Internet version, at: skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/945.html
Cordley, Richard, D. D.. [START ITAL]Sermons [by] Richard Cordley, D. D., For Thirty-Eight Years Pastor of Plymouth Church, Lawrence, Kansas[END ITAL]. Boston, New York: Pilgrim Press, 1912. Available at: https://archive.org/details/sermonsbyrichard00cord
Doy, John. The Narrative of John Doy of Lawrence, Kansas: A Plain, Unvarnished Tale. Published privately, 1860. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/ABJ5091.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext http://books.google.com/books?id=AvZ5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
McCorkle, John and O. S. Barton. Three Years with Quantrill, A True Story. 1914. Amazon.com Kindle edition: www.amazon.com/Three-Years-Quantrill-Western-Frontier/dp/0806130563/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425597665&sr=1-1&keywords=john+mccorkle%2Bquantrill.
Miller, Diane. To Make Men Free: The Underground Railroad in Bleeding Kansas. National Park Service, May 2008. www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/discover_history/upload/UGRR-in-Kansas.pdf.
Robinson, Charles. The Kansas Conflict. New York: Harpers and Brothers, 1892. https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Kansas_Conflict.html?id=AvZ5AAAAMAAJ.
Robinson, Sara T. L. Kansas, Its Interior and Exterior Life: Including a Full View of its Settlement, Political History, Social Life, Climate, Soil, Productions, Scenery, etc. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1856. books.google.com/books?id=CHgFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Younger, Cole. The Story of Cole Younger, By Himself. 1903. Amazon.com Kindle edition, at: www.amazon.com/Story-Cole-Younger-Himself-ebook/dp/B004TPC6Y0/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425493959&sr=1–1&keywords=cole+younger+autobiography
Articles
Armitage, Katie H. “‘Out of the Ashes’: The Rebuilding of Lawrence and the Quest for Quantrill Raid Claims.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 37 (Winter 2014–2015): 226–241.
Baron, Frank, “James H. Lane and the Origins of the Kansas Jayhawk.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 34 (Summer 2011): 114–27.
Barry, Louise. “The Emigrant Aid Company Parties of 1854.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 12 (May 1943): 115–155.
______________. “The New England Emigrant Aid Company Parties of 1855.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 12 (August 1943): 227–68.
Dailey, Dennis M. “Josiah Miller, an Antislavery Southerner: Letters to Father and Mother.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 36 (Summer 2013): 66–89.
Dirck, Brian R. “By the Hand of God: James Montgomery and Redemptive Violence.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 27 (Spring-Summer, 2004): 100–116.
Etchison, Nicole. “Labouring for the Freedom of This Territory: Free-State Kansas Women in the 1850s.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 21 (Summer 1998): 68–87.
Griffin, C. S. “The University of Kansas and the Years of Frustration, 1854–64.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 32, (Spring 1966): 1–32.
Hickman, Russell. “The Vegetarian and Octagon Settlement Companies.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 2 (November 1933): 377–385.
Hougen, Harvey R. “The Marais des Cygnes Massacre and the Trial and Execution of William Griffith.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Plains 8 (Summer 1985): 74–94.
Langsdorf, Erich. “Jim Lane and the Frontier Guard.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 9 (February 1940): 13–25.
Mechem, Kirke. “The Mythical Jayhawk.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 13 (February 1944): 1–15.
Watts, Dale E. “How Bloody was Bleeding Kansas? Political Killings in Kansas Territory, 1854–1861,” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 18 (Summer 1995): 116–129.
Wilson, Nathan. “Congregationalist Richard Cordley and the Impact of New England Cultural Imperialism in Kansas, 1857–1904.” Great Plains Quarterly 24 (Summer 2004): 184–199
Articles in Electronic Format
Blunt, James G. “General Blunt’s Account of His Civil War Experiences.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 1 (May 1932): 248–49. www.kancoll.org/khq/1932/32_3_blunt.htm
Castel, Albert “Order No. 11 and the Civil War on the Border.” www.civilwarstlouis.com/History2/castelorder11.htm
Dolbee, Cora. “The First Book on Kansas: The Story of Edward Everett Hale’s “Kanzas and Nebraska” Kansas Historical Review 2 (May 1933): 139–181. www.kancoll.org/khq/1933/33_2_dolbee.htm.
Hulbert, Matthew C. “William ‘Bloody Bill’ Anderson,” Essential Civil War Curriculum (June 2012). www.essential.civilwar.vt.edu/assets/files/ECWC%20TOPIC%20Anderson%20Bloody%20Bill%20Essay1.pdf
Savage, Joseph. “Recollections of 1854,” Western Home Journal 4 (14 July 1870). www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgi-in/index.php?SCREEN=transcripts/savage_joseph.
Manuscript Collections
Amos Adams Lawrence Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, Massachusetts.
Issac Goodnow Collection. Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka, Kansas.
Online Manuscript Collections
The texts of American Indian treaties cited in this volume can be found at: digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/del0614.htm; and digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/del0304.htm.
Kansas Military History is available at: www.kansasguardmuseum.org.
Important documents, letters, images, and other information encompassing the entire range of Kansas history are available at: www.kansasmemory.org.
[The] “Personal Recollections of Mrs. Sara T. D. Robinson of the Quantrell [sic]Raid of August 21, 1863” can be found in the Special Collections, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Every conceivable document, letter, image, map, or notable artifact relating to the history of Kansas as a territory is available at: www.territorialkansasonline.org
Online Government Documents
Laws and many documents can be found at the Library of Congress site: memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Laws cited in this volume as well as a wealth of additional government documents can be found at the National Archives site: www.ourdocuments.gov.
Books and government reports are available at: quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa.
The National Park Service has a wealth of information available on the Underground Railroad at: www.nps.gov/ugrr, and information on soldiers and sailors in the Civil War at: www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm.
The National Register of Historic Places Nominations for Kansas and other states can be found at: www.nps.gov/nR.
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. The full set is available at: ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/moawar/waro.html.
Newspapers
The Allen County Courant (Iola, Kansas)
Anti-slavery Bugle (New Lisbon, Ohio)
Capital Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
Free State (Lawrence, Kansas)
Herald of Freedom (Lawrence, Kansas)
Kansas City (Missouri) Star
Lawrence (Kansas) Gazette
Lawrence (Kansas) Journal
Lawrence (Kansas) Journal World
Lawrence (Kansas) Republican
Lawrence (Kansas) State Journal
(Leavenworth, Kansas) Daily Times
The New York Times
Websites
Slavery and Justice Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, detailing the role of the Brown family in the slave trade and the university’s role over time in confronting historical injustice and slavery’s legacy: brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/documents/SlaveryAndJustice.pdf.
Essays written by notable scholars on Civil War topics related to the Civil War in the West: www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org A variety of stories on Kansas history: www.kshs.org University of Kansas history: www.kuhistory.com New York Times article for the sesquicentennial of the Civil War: opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
Information about the William Clarke Quantrill Society: wcqsociety.com/
Index
1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 152–154
1st Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 132–133
Demographics and ages of, 133
2nd Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 165
2nd Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 132–133
Company C “Union Guards” of, 134, 142
3rd Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 148
4th Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 148
5th Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 148
6th Kansas State Militia, 155
7th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 148–152
15th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 155
16th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 233. 259n329
39th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Mounted), 202–203
Abbott, James B., 48, 52–53
abolitionists, 26
African Americans, 3, 56, 107, 117, 119, 178–179, 226
Allen, Norman, 105–106
American Party, 100–101
Anderson, William “Bloody Bill,” 168–170, 172–174, 204–206, 227
after Lawrence Raid, 201–204
agrees to attack Lawrence, 174
Centralia Massacre, 202
death of, 204
early life, 168–169
killings in Lawrence, 186
sisters of, 172
Anthony, Daniel R., 23, 149–150
antislavery, 59
Articles of Confederation, xv
Atchison, David, 85, 245n134
Aubry, Kansas, 163
Baldwin, John, 35–36
Baxter Springs, Battle of, 199
Beecher, Henry Ward, 15–16, 53–54, 225
“Beecher’s Bibles,” 53
Beecher, Lyman, 14–15
Benton, Thomas Hart, 44, 101
Bickerton, Thomas, 91–93, 252n143
Big Springs, Kansas, 56
Big Springs Convention, 56–57, 81
Bingham, George Caleb, 172, 197–198
General Order #11, 198
Black Jack, Battle of, 89
“Bleeding Kansas,” 63, 68, 104, 113, 219
Blood, James, 23
“Bloomington Guards,” 91–92
Blue Mount Central College. See Kansas State University
Blunt, James G., 199
Bodwell, Louis, 181, 187
“Border Ruffians,” 76, 84–86, 90–92, 95–97, 99, 132, 145, 156
Boston, 3, 83
Boston Sunday Herald, 190
Branscomb, Charles H., 22–23, 220
Branson, Jacob, 64–65, 70
Breckenridge, John, 130
Brooks, Preston, 86
Brown, George Washington, 36–38, 45–46, 71–72, 100–101, 105, 232
ends publication of Herald of Freedom, 124
indicted for treason, 81
restarts Herald of Freedom, 98
Brown, John, 57, 87–89, 96, 113
Brown, John Jr., 87, 149
Brown, John Carter, 11–12, 43–44
Brown, Lois, 67
Brown University, 9, 237n20
Buchanan, James, 94, 101–103, 107, 125
Burns, Anthony, 3–5, 7–8, 223
Butler, Andrew, 86
Cabot, Samuel, 44, 76
Stark Mad Abolitionists Page 28