William Elsey Connelley papers, 1880-1930.

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William Elsey Connelley papers, 1880-1930.

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Research for book, Quantrill and the Border Wars, includes correspondence, transcripts of interviews and statements, copies of articles, newspaper clippings, notes and articles; manuscript draft and research material for Border Wars: Life and Time of Wild Bill, unpublished book. Photographs: View of William Quantrill's house, studio portrait of his mother, Caroline Quantrill, studio portrait of Lieutenant Cyrus Leland, Jr., studio portrait of Alice Van Ness, images of houses and buildings in Lawrence, Kansas.

5.5 linear ft. (6 boxes)

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Hickok, Wild Bill, 1837-1876

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Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865

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William Clarke Quantrill was born in Canal Dover, Ohio in 1837. He came to Kansas as a young man, and taught school for a while before he became active in the border wars, between free state and pro-slavery forces in the fight for Kansas statehood. He fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War, participating in guerrilla warfare. His most infamous act as a guerrilla chief was the sack of Lawrence in the early morning of August 21, 1863. Quantrill died two years after the raid in a milit...

Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930

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