QUANTRILL AND THE BORDER WARS By William Elsey Connelley. Cedar Rapids 1910, First Edition.  Illustrated, Maps, 539 pages (rough cut). Average wear to covers, contents clean & tight (No writing, bookplates, etc).  V.G.+

An outstanding study of William Clark Quantrill and the famous "Border Wars" in Kansas & Missouri in the 1860's.  With the outbreak of the Civil War Quantrill joined the Confederacy and fought at Lexington, Missouri.  Preferring guerilla tactics, he organized his own gang of southern sympathizers.  Although he failed to receive any Confederate endorsement or direct support, he and his men raided communities supposed to have Union sympathizers and robbed mail coaches.  They frequently murdered citizens who were suspected of being Union sympathizers.  In 1862 Quantrill and his gang were declared outlaws by Union officials.

Many other outlaws rode with Quantrill during those violent years like Frank & Jesse James, Cole Younger and other noted outlaws.