Peacekeeping on the Plains : Army operations in bleeding Kansas /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2004.
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Series: | Shades of blue and gray series
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=122142 |
Table of Contents:
- Great expectations, limited resources
- Violent means and political ends: expansion and slavery collide in Kansas, 1854-1856
- Peace enforcement: the Sioux Expedition of 1855
- Peacemaking: Harney and the peace of Fort Pierre
- Conflicting interests: peace, land, and speculation in territorial Kansas, 1854-1856
- Peacekeeping and command, control, communications, and information during Bleeding Kansas
- The guns of August: Kansas on the precipice of Civil War
- Applying the tourniquet of peace: John Geary, the Army, and the election of 1856.