Beyond the Sabbath
Subtitle: Missouri and her violent heritage
By: Dick Steward
Publisher: Vintage Publications
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Marceline, MO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780615130354
Subjects: Violence; History; Pioneers; Frontier and pioneer life; Dueling
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the nature of violence; title: Missouri before the American flag; title: Early frontier life; title: The extremes of violence in Territorial Missouri; title: Blood sports of the gentlemen; title: Violence on the eve of statehood; title: The age of Benton : prescriptive violence; title: Institutionalized violence in the age of Benton; title: Villians, victors, and vanquished in the age of Benton; title: Slave violence; title: 1850s and the coming disaster; title: Institutional disorers in the 1850s; title: Background to the Civil War; title: Military aspects of the Civil War; title: Guerrilla War in Missouri; title: Reconstruction violence; title: Jesse and the rabble; title: Violence and the quest for social justice; title: Duelists, bladknobbers, captives, and warriors.