Thanks, Paul. It does no good for people biased for the Northern side to pretend that the histories of the Border War have been fair. Many of us are quite educated and intelligent and recognize all the distortions. Like my mention in my book of the twenty-two Kansans who made a major, treasonouos effort to break John Brown out of a jail where he was awaiting execution for treason. That is found in no other book but mine, and my book is on the Border War as a whole, not just the Territorial period. This story is readily found in the Kansas State Historical Society's multivolume set of book on Kansas History. But it WASN'T worth mentioning in all the other history books for the last 150 years. I also have a large amount of material on the Red Legs in my book, much of which doesn't appear in other books. Northern biased historians just refuse to use this 100 percent verifiable data because they want to continue the propaganda war began in 1854. I'm the first person in a book to detail WHO the guerrillas were, socioeconomically: largely the sons and daughters of the elites in Western Missouri, and I prove it in detail using Don R. Bowen's careful study of the Jackson County Census. Why didn't the other scholars mention this in their books over the last 150 years. I call this avoiding the facts to slant your own Yankee-biased histories. Hey, I don't want a Southern history of the Border War. Neither do other Southerners. I have talked to a lot of Southerners, and they have always said the same thing to me: Just tell the truth. And that's exactly what I did and am going to continue to do, and I'm not going to turn tail because someone lambasts me with old, worn out propaganda. It wasn't accurate or relevant 150 years ago, and it still isn't.

Don Gl