The Pike's Peakers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers

The Pike's Peakers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 529
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ISBN-10 : 9781477102336
ISBN-13 : 1477102337
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Book Synopsis The Pike's Peakers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers by : Kenneth E. Draper

Download or read book The Pike's Peakers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers written by Kenneth E. Draper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having been born and raised on the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, and having the ghosts of the Civil War about me constantly, I have been passionately interested in the Civil War as long as I can remember. The Victorian and antebellum homes with servant quarters still behind them, the wooded bluffs and caves where escaped slaves were hidden, and the mystique of the Missouri River area itself have maintained this feeling of the war for me. My mothers immediate family was from the Missouri River bottoms on the Missouri side and my fathers immediate family was from rural Atchison on the Kansas side. From my incomplete and somewhat misinformed family and formal history education, I assumed for most of my life that my mothers family was Confederate in its leanings and that my fathers family was Union. I was unaware that the town and countys namesake, Sen. David Rice Atchison, was from Missouri and had much Pro-Slavery activity. No effort has ever been made to change the towns name since the war. No Confederate tie to him was taught in any of my classes in school.


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