I have reread your book and though you talk about the truth, being unbiased, etc., your pro-southern bias shines through on almost every page. That would be fine if you weren't in your introduction and on these boards trying to be so impartially revealing & truthful (ie putting yourself on a pedestal) about the "real war" fought along the Kansas-Missouri border. You clearly have a dislike, maybe even hatred of all things Kansas. That's fine. When I finish a couple of other projects, I'm going to delve into your assertion about the guerrillas being elites, etc.; look at the work on the Jackson county census and conduct my own review of the census. Hopefully Mr Bowen's work will clearly state the criteria for the elite classification since you do not in your book. Then I also wish to see how many Unionist within same county fall into the elite category.

I wish you luck on your book, as biased as it is, and will let your own words on these boards do there work. It's a pity you let so much bias show through your writing for there were interesting points in your book.