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Tables of Contents for The Devil Knows How to Ride
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
8
Introduction
xix
1 "War to the Knife!": The War over Kansas Territory, 1854-1861
3
32
2 "The Blight That Falls on Remote Generations": Quantrill's Family Background and Early Years
35
14
3 "Hard & Scaly Times": Quantrill's Western Travels
49
15
4 "Abolitionist and Extreme Pro-slavery Man": The Morgan Walker Raid
64
18
5 "Desperate Leader of the Most Desperate Demons": Quantrill Becomes a Guerrilla
82
30
6 "The Bullets Were Whizing Thick and Fast Around Me": Ambushes and Reprisals
112
17
7 "Boys, We Had Better Surrender!": The Raid on Independence
129
28
8 "Meet Slaughter with Slaughter": Prelude to the Lawrence Massacre
157
36
9 "The Most Diabolical Deed of the Whole Civil War": The Lawrence Massacre
193
52
10 "We Prayed That Night or Succor Might Come": The Pursuit of Quantrill and the Issuing of Order No. 11
245
23
11 "Brave Men and True Were Scattered and Strewn over the Ground": The Baxter Springs Massacre
268
16
12 "The History of Every Guerilla Chief Has Been the Same": The Usurpation of Quantrill
284
19
13 "A Carnival of Blood": Anderson and Todd During the Summer and Fall of 1864
303
38
14 "Here's a Sigh to Those Who Love Me": The Death of Quantrill
341
29
15 "The Outlaw Is a Deformity on the Face of Nature": The Postwar Years
370
36
Epilogue "What Would His Skull Be Worth to Your Society?": The Bizarre History of Quantrill's Remains
406
35
Notes
441
52
Select Bibliography
493
14
Index
507