Edward E. Leslie weaves eyewitness accounts, letters, and military reports into a definitive biography of William Clarke Quantrill, tracing how an Ohio schoolteacher became the Confederacy’s most feared guerrilla leader.
It covers the 1863 Lawrence, Kansas massacre in unflinching detail and follows the postwar outlaw careers of the men who rode with Quantrill, including Frank and Jesse James and Cole Younger, in a border war that spilled across Missouri, Kansas, and Kentucky.
Published 1998
516 pages