Three Years With Quantrell: A True Story Told By His Scout - 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 Three Years With Quantrell: A True Story Told By His Scout write by John McCorkle. This book was released on 2015-11-06. Three Years With Quantrell: A True Story Told By His Scout available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This famous memoir by John McCorkle, is the best published account by a scout who “rode with Quantrill.” John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill’s infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the Missouri-Kansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people. McCorkle displayed an unflinchingly violent nature while he participated in raids and engagements including the massacres at Lawrence and Baxter Springs, Kansas, and Centralia, Missouri. In 1865 he followed Quantrill into Kentucky, where the notorious leader was killed and his followers, McCorkle among them, surrendered and were paroled by Union authorities. Early in this century, having returned to farming, McCorkle told his remarkable Civil War experiences to O.S. Barton, a lawyer, who wrote this book.”-Print ed.
Three Years with Quantrell
Three Years with Quantrell - 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 Three Years with Quantrell write by John McCorkle. This book was released on 2008. Three Years with Quantrell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Three Years With Quantrell; a True Story
Three Years With Quantrell; a True Story - 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 Three Years With Quantrell; a True Story write by John Mccorkle. This book was released on 2022-10-27. Three Years With Quantrell; a True Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Three Years with Quantrell
Three Years with Quantrell - 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 Three Years with Quantrell write by John McCorkle. This book was released on 1914. Three Years with Quantrell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lexington
Lexington - 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 Lexington write by Kim Wickens. This book was released on 2023-07-11. Lexington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse The powerful true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained international fame in the tumultuous Civil War–era South, and became the most successful sire in American racing history The early days of American horse racing were grueling. Four-mile races, run two or three times in succession, were the norm, rewarding horses who brandished the ideal combination of stamina and speed. The stallion Lexington, named after the city in Kentucky where he was born, possessed these winning qualities, which pioneering Americans prized. Lexington shattered the world speed record for a four-mile race, showing a war-torn nation that the extraordinary was possible even in those perilous times. He would continue his winning career until deteriorating eyesight forced his retirement in 1855. But once his groundbreaking achievements as a racehorse ended, his role as a sire began. Horses from his bloodline won more money than the offspring of any other Thoroughbred—an annual success that led Lexington to be named America’s leading sire an unprecedented sixteen times. Yet with the Civil War raging, Lexington’s years at a Kentucky stud farm were far from idyllic. Confederate soldiers ran amok, looting freely and kidnapping horses from the top stables. They soon focused on the prized Lexington and his valuable progeny. Kim Wickens, a lawyer and dressage rider, became fascinated by this legendary horse when she learned that twelve of Thoroughbred racing's thirteen Triple Crown winners descended from Lexington. Wickens spent years meticulously researching the horse and his legacy—and with Lexington, she presents an absorbing, exciting account that transports readers back to the raucous beginning of American horse racing and introduces them to the stallion at its heart.
