Greeley & McElrath, 1841-1866 The border ruffian code in Kansas

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GLC#
GLC08471
Type
Books & pamphlets
Date
1865
Author/Creator
Greeley & McElrath, 1841-1866
Title
The border ruffian code in Kansas
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
1 v. : 15 p. : Height: 22.9 cm, Width: 15 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

A pro-Republican, free-soil pamphlet published by Horace Greeley's Tribune. "The character of the Code of pretended Laws enacted by the bogus Territorial Legislature of Kansas- a Legislature notoriously forced upon the people of that Territory, at the hands of invading ruffians from Missouri, using the persuasive arguments of the Bowie-Knife and Revolver- may be judged from the following extracts..." Many pages are disbound. Last page, on verso of fifteen, consists of a map of free and slave states.

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