The Devil Knows How To Ride: The True Story Of William Clarke Quantril And His Confederate Raiders
by Edward E. Leslie

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Book Review: Absolutely amazing
Summary: 5 Stars

From start to end of epilogue is 440 pages of intense information and you will not tire of any page of it. The book is very fair and portrays how a man I thought was a base criminal when I started was just one of many, many men in a brutal surrounding. The author does not gloss over the horrific burning of Lawrence or the Baxter Springs Massacre but he also gives significant time to the Union Orders that affected Quantrell's policies and the actions undertaken by Lane and Jennison that spawned much of the Missourian animousity.

From his history, real and mythic, to his life and the times it was in, to his death and (multiple) dispositions, I can't believe the author could have left anything out. In fact, I will have to go back through to try to condense the information in my head.

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