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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 5.50x0.58x8.50 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good Plus in red cloth with gilt titles and decorations. 1st Printing. A Firm, clean copy with very light edge wear. No spine titles. 266pp 12mo.

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Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS-THIS ONE WASN'T. One of the more uncommon twentieth-century accounts of William Clarke Quantrill and the Missouri-Kansas Border War, this volume presents the Confederate guerrilla leader through the recollections of Captain Harrison Trow, who claimed to have followed Quantrill throughout his military career. Rather than repeating the conventional narrative, John P. Burch assembled a sympathetic account that attempts to explain the motivations, operations, and personalities surrounding one of the Civil War's most controversial figures. Illustrated throughout, the work recounts guerrilla campaigns along the Missouri-Kansas border while incorporating episodes involving Frank James, Cole Younger, and other figures who later became legends of the American West. Today it remains an intriguing contribution to the contested historiography of the Border War and the evolution of Quantrill's postwar reputation. FEATURES +++ Publisher's original maroon cloth stamped in gilt with an oval portrait of Charles W. Quantrill on the front board. +++ Frontispiece portrait with numerous in-text illustrations. +++ Narrative based upon the recollections of Captain Harrison Trow, who claimed to have served with Quantrill. +++ Privately published at Vega, Texas. +++ 7.75 inches tall; 266 pages. +++ Note: The author provided a different spelling of Quantrill on the cover and inside the book. CONDITION: Very Good. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean with light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with minor hand-soiling to the cloth. Pages 10-11 show offsetting from a now-lost newspaper clipping. Spine ends and corners are rubbed but not broken. A solid, attractive example of an increasingly uncommon regional publication. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - REINTERPRETING THE CIVIL WAR'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL GUERRILLA. Published nearly sixty years after the Civil War, Burch's work reflects the continuing effort by former Confederates and their descendants to preserve an alternative interpretation of guerrilla warfare along the Missouri-Kansas border. Drawing upon testimony attributed to Captain Harrison Trow, the volume presents Quantrill not merely as an outlaw but as a Confederate partisan operating within the brutal irregular warfare that characterized the Trans-Mississippi theater. Today the book serves less as an objective military history than as an important primary artifact in the study of Civil War memory, Lost Cause literature, and the evolving public image of Quantrill and his followers. Its regional imprint and relatively modest publication make it considerably less common than many standard biographies of the guerrilla leader. SCHOLARLY FEATURES +++ Border War History: Documents one of the most violent irregular campaigns fought during the American Civil War. +++ Historiography: Represents an early twentieth-century attempt to reinterpret Quantrill through participant testimony rather than Union military accounts. +++ Western Americana: Includes accounts involving figures later associated with the James-Younger tradition and postwar frontier legend. SUBJECTS: William Clarke Quantrill; John P. Burch; Captain Harrison Trow; Missouri-Kansas Border War; Civil War Guerrillas; Confederate Partisans; Lawrence Raid; Frank James; Cole Younger; Missouri History; Kansas History; Lost Cause Literature; Western Americana, Civil War History; Western Americana; Military History; Guerrilla Warfare; Biography; Regional History.…

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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated wrappers. 231-288pp. Covers faintly soiled and lightly creased, spine tanned with small tears at ends, very good. Contributions by Richard Wilbur, Claire Burch, John Ciardi, Hayden Carruth, Elizabeth Brewster, Stanley Edgar Hyman, R.P. Blackmur and more. …

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