Bleeding Kansas: contested liberty in the Civil War era

"Bleeding Kansas is a gripping account of events and people - rabble-rousing Jim Lane, zealot John Brown, Sheriff Sam Jones, and others - that examines the social milieu of the settlers along with the political ideas they developed. Covering the period from the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act to the 1...

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Main Author: Etcheson, Nicole 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence Univ. Press of Kansas 2004
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Summary:"Bleeding Kansas is a gripping account of events and people - rabble-rousing Jim Lane, zealot John Brown, Sheriff Sam Jones, and others - that examines the social milieu of the settlers along with the political ideas they developed. Covering the period from the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act to the 1879 Exoduster migration, it traces the complex interactions among groups inside and outside the territory, creating a comprehensive political, social, and intellectual history of this tumultuous period in the state's history."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XIV, 370 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0700612874

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