| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 377 pages) |
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Shades of blue and gray series |
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Shades of blue and gray series.
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part One: Hardscrabble; 1 The Judgment of Heaven on a Country; 2 LE GRAND DÉTOUR; 3 MORTGAGES, PRESS BOOKS, AND OFFICE BOYS; 4 MR. CHIEF JUSTICE AND A MAN NAMED LINCOLN; Part Two: They'd as Soon Fight the Devil as to Fight Kansas Men; 5 A WORLD WAS WATCHING; 6 EWING'S LIGHT ARTILLERY; 7 EXTERMINATE THEM, ROOT AND BRANCH; 8 THE VISIBLE INTERPOSITION OF GOD; 9 THERMOPYLAE OF THE WEST; Part Three: The Politics of Money; 10 DR. MUDD'S TRIALAND WIDOW ADIE'S COTTON; 11 THE GATHERING OF EVIL BIRDS; 12 THE CRÉDIT MOBILIER AND"HIS FRAUDULENCY." |
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13 SWEATY OLD COINS AND LAST HURRAHSBIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
"Examines Thomas Ewing Jr.'s career as a real estate lawyer, judge, soldier, and speculator in Kansas and how he came to national prominence in the fight over the proslavery Lecompton Constitution, was instrumental in starting the Union Pacific Railroad, and became the first chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-357) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ewing, Thomas, 1829-1896.
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Ewing family.
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Ewing family
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Ewing, Thomas, 1829-1896
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Ewing family fast |
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Ewing, Thomas, 1829-1896 fast |
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United States. Congress. House -- Biography
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United States. Congress. House fast |
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Legislators -- United States -- Biography
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Generals -- United States -- Biography
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Lawyers -- Ohio -- Biography
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Judges -- Kansas -- Biography
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Businessmen -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
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Businessmen
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Generals
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Judges
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Lawyers
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Legislators
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Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071516
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Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086225
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Kansas
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Missouri
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Ohio
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008021866 |
| ISBN |
9780826266668 |
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0826266665 |
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