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Thomas Ewing Jr. : Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General /

"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...

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Autor principal: Smith, Ronald D., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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