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Focuses on the violence that erupted—long before the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter—along the Missouri-Kansas border. Blends political, military, social, and intellectual history to explain why the divisiveness was so bitter and persisted so long, still influencing attitudes 150 years later.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Introduction: Revisiting the Long Civil War on the Border
  2. Jonathan Earle, Diane Mutti Burke
  3. pp. 1-10
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  1. 1. "I Came Not to Bring Peace, but a Sword": The Christian War God and the War of All against All on the Kansas-Missouri Border
  2. Michael Fellman
  3. pp. 11-26
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  1. Part I. Slavery and the Politics of Law and Order along the Border
  1. 2. Before the Border War: Slavery and the Settlement of the Western Frontier, 1825–1845
  2. Kristen K. Epps
  3. pp. 29-46
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  1. 3. The Goose Question: The Proslavery Party in Territorial Kansas and the "Crisis in Law and Order"
  2. Nicole Etcheson
  3. pp. 47-64
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  1. 4. "Nigger-Worshipping Fanatics" and "Villain[s] of the Blackest Dye": Racialized Manhoods and the Sectional Debates
  2. Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel
  3. pp. 65-80
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  1. 5. "The Noise of Democracy": The Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas
  2. Pearl T. Ponce
  3. pp. 81-96
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  1. Part II. Making the Border Bleed
  1. 6. The Illusion of Security: The Governments' Response to the Jayhawker Threat of Late 1860
  2. Tony R. Mullis
  3. pp. 99-118
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  1. 7. "If I Went West, I Think I Would Go to Kansas": Abraham Lincoln, the Sunflower State, and the Election of 1860
  2. Jonathan Earle
  3. pp. 119-130
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  1. 8. "A Question of Power Not One of Law": Federal Occupation and the Politics of Loyalty in the Western Border Slave States during the American Civil War
  2. Christopher Phillips
  3. pp. 131-150
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  1. 9. "Slavery Dies Hard": Enslaved Missourians' Struggle for Freedom
  2. Diane Mutti Burke
  3. pp. 151-168
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  1. 10. The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Style of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri
  2. Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
  3. pp. 169-186
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  1. Part III. The Border War Reconstructed and Remembered
  1. 11. The Lexington Weekly Caucasian: White Supremacist Discourse in Post–Civil War Western Missouri
  2. Aaron Astor
  3. pp. 189-204
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  1. 12. "We Promise to Use the Ballot as We Did the Bayonet": Black Suffrage Activism and the Limits of Loyalty in Reconstruction Missouri
  2. John W. McKerley
  3. pp. 205-224
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  1. 13. "A Little Different than in Alabama": Sectional Narratives and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
  2. Brent M. S. Campney
  3. pp. 225-242
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  1. 14. The Quantrill Men Reunions: The Missouri-Kansas Border War, Fifty Years On
  2. Jeremy Neely
  3. pp. 243-258
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  1. 15. "William Quantrill Is My Homeboy": Or, The Border War Goes to College
  2. Jennifer L. Weber
  3. pp. 259-276
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 277-330
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 331-334
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 335-346
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