The Belligerent Rain Crows and the Middle Border War

Download or read book The Belligerent Rain Crows and the Middle Border War written by Merle Leon Faubion and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the nation became engulfed in the American Civil War, the inhabitants of the Kansas-Missouri border region had already been subjected to a vicious local war of seven years duration. Along this border area there had developed a deep hatred between the people of Kansas and western Missourians which transcended the slavery issue. Much of the history of that time and place, as we know it, has come from those who were living in ableeding Kansas.a There is, however, another history, sometimes at odds with the Kansas accounts, which illustrates how profoundly devastated this western edge of Missouri became. The Belligerent Rain Crows and the Middle Border War revisits this chaotic time from the perspective of Missourians who were living in a small region nestled against the Kansas-Missouri state line. The death and destruction which occurred here, leading up to the Civil War and on through the war itself, are unprecedented in American history.