To Govern the Devil in Hell: The Political Crisis in Territorial Kansas

Pearl Ponce (Editor) To Govern the Devil in Hell: The Political Crisis in Territorial Kansas (Northern Illinois University Press, 2011)
The Kansas Territory was at an ideological crossroads in 1854, and the violence that erupted there foreshadowed the American Civil War that began over many of the same issues five years later. The collected writings in this book document that explosive time.