Thanks semotruman, I can tell you know your history about this and I am really enjoying reading your posts. Knew a little about Quantrall and obviously Jesse and Frank James but am really enjoying the information about the Jayhawkers and Bushwakers and the goings on between Kansas and Missouri.

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Posted by semotruman

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Posted on 6/24/12 at 8:47 pm to windhammontanatigers

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windhammontanatigers

Thank you! You know, I learned about it last year when I was Christmas shopping. I drew a name in a gift exchange - the guy was career military, sent to West Point where he played basketball and baseball, and now coaches basketball. I thought he might be interested in something on the Border War, so I bought him 2 books - one on the Border War specifically and a biography of Jesse James. I read most of them before I wrapped them up!

He loved them, and said the Border War wasn't really covered at West Point when he was there. This, even though the fighting in Missouri and Kansas was sort of the beginning of modern guerilla warfare, at least in the western world. I just got really interested in it. And living here, every time a conversation starts, someone chimes in with a family story - they still live it to some degree.

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