| War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861 Contributor(s): Goodrich, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 080327114X ISBN-13: 9780803271142 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: A powerful narrative of the bloody prologue to the Civil War, "War to the Knife" covers the 1854 shooting war between pro-slavery men in Missouri and free-staters in Kansas over control of the Kansas territory. 30 photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Military - General |
| Dewey: 978.102 |
| LCCN: 2004011001 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.02" W x 9.16" (0.90 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Geographic Orientation - Kansas - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long before the secession crisis at Fort Sumter ignited the War between the States, men fought and died on the prairies of Kansas over the incendiary issue of slavery. "War to the knife and knife to the hilt," cried the Atchison Squatter Sovereign. In 1854 a shooting war developed between proslavery men from Missouri and free-staters in Kansas over control of the territory. The prize was whether Kansas would become a slave or a free state when admitted to the Union, a question that could decide the balance of power in Washington. War to the Knife is an absorbing account of a bloody episode in our nation's past, told in the unforgettable words of the men and women involved: Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, Sara Robinson, Jeb Stuart, Abraham Lincoln, William F. Cody, and John Brown-hailed as a prophet by some, denounced as a madman by others. Because the conflict soon spread east, events in "Bleeding Kansas" have largely been forgotten. But as historian Thomas Goodrich reveals in this compelling saga, what America's "first civil war" lacked in numbers, it more than made up for in ferocity. Thomas Goodrich is the author of Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865 and the coauthor of The Day Dixie Died: Southern Occupation, 1865-1866. |