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I'm interested in the quasi, irregular warfare of this region. Can anyone recommend a good book?
You might try:
Turbulent Partnership: Missouri and the Union 1861-1865 by William E. Parrish, University of Missouri Press, 1963 if you can find it. It is largely about the leaders, military and civilian, and the politics involved. Out of Print, but you might find it in a library system. Some of these others will be hard to find as well.
A Frontier State at War: Kansas, 1861-1865, Albert E. Castel, Cornell University Press, 1958
Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War, Michael Fellman, Oxford University Press, 1989
Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865, Indiana University Press, 1995
Sibley's New Mexico Campaign, Martin Harwick Hall, University of Texas Press. 1960
The Civil War in the American West, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Alfred A. Knopf, 1991
Civil War on the Western Border, Jay Monaghan, Little, Brown, and Co., 1955
Confederate Cavalry West of the River, Stephen B. Oates, University of Texas Press, 1961
Texas, the Dark Corner of the Confederacy: Contemporary Accounts of the Lone Star State in the Civil War, B. P. Galloway, ed., University of Nebraska Press, 1994
Texas Divided: Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State: 1865-1874, James Marten, University Press of Kentucky, 1990
I'd direct you towards The Camp Pope Bookstore. I ain't involved with 'em, but I have purchased quite a few books from 'em. They've got whole sections about Missouri and Kansas, Bushwackers, Guerrillas and Jayhawkers. Some well known titles and some pretty obscure ones too.
Nichols, Bruce. GUERRILLA WARFARE IN CIVIL WAR MISSOURI, 1862.
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