Quantrill's Raiders in Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantrill's Raiders in Texas write by Evault Boswell. This book was released on 2003. Quantrill's Raiders in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the fall of 1863, William Clarke Quantrill, the Missouri bushwhacker, took about three hundred of his followers across Indian Territory to Sherman, Texas. In the Lone Star State, the bushwhackers made camp at Mineral Creek. Henry McCulloch, the Confederate commander of the District of Northeast Texas, tried to find a use for the pseudo-rebels, but they failed in rounding up deserters, chasing Indians, and destroying moonshiners. They did manage to ravage the city of Sherman, getting drunk and shooting the tassels off the hat of Grayson County's leading lady, Sophia Butts. They also robbed and killed citizens, including Sophia's husband. Then they began to fight among themselves until Quantrill's command splintered. Texas seemed little changed in the guerrillas' wake, but the atrocities they committed after returning north show that their time near Sherman changed them decisively.
Quantrill and the Border Wars
Quantrill and the Border Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantrill and the Border Wars write by William Elsey Connelley. This book was released on 1909. Quantrill and the Border Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Quantrill in Texas
Quantrill in Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantrill in Texas write by Paul R. Petersen. This book was released on 2007. Quantrill in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Details Quantrill's forays into North Texas during the Civil War.
The Midnight Assassin
The Midnight Assassin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Midnight Assassin write by Skip Hollandsworth. This book was released on 2016-04-05. The Midnight Assassin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
The Devil Knows How To Ride
The Devil Knows How To Ride - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil Knows How To Ride write by Edward E. Leslie. This book was released on 1998-08-22. The Devil Knows How To Ride available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (1837–1865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio schoolteacher from a staunchly Unionist family into a virulent pro-slavery Confederate soldier and the most feared and despised guerrilla chieftain of the Civil War. This groundbreaking work includes the most accurate account ever written of the 1863 Lawrence, Kansas massacre (the greatest atrocity of the Civil War), when Quantrill and 450 raiders torched the Unionist town and executed roughly 200 unarmed, unresisting men and teenage boys. It also details the postwar outlaw careers of those who rode with him—Frank and Jesse James, and Cole Younger. No other history so fully penetrates the myth of a cardboard-cutout psychopath to expose Quantrill in all his brutality and human complexity.
