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David Rice Atchison of Missouri, border politician

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dc.contributor.authorParrish, William Earl, 1931-eng
dc.contributor.corporatenameUniversity of Missouri Presseng
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Stateseng
dc.coverage.temporal1800-1860eng
dc.date.issued1961eng
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographyeng
dc.description.abstractIt is the purpose of this study to trace the public career of David Rice Atchison from his early cases in a frontier courtroom to his last defense of Southern rights in Kansas which ended in ultimate defeat and undeserved condemnation both for himself and for the South which he served so devotedly.eng
dc.description.digitizationDigitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2012. Digitized at 600 dpi with Zeutschel, OS 15000 scanner. Access copy, available in MOspace, is 400 dpi, grayscale.eng
dc.description.tableofcontentsFrontier lawyer -- The Mormon War -- Circuit judge -- Western senator -- The Oregon settlement -- A government for Oregon -- The Southern Address -- Benton's Appeal -- The Compromise of 1850 -- The defeat of Benton -- The "mess" -- The Nebraska question -- The patronage struggle -- The Kansas-Nebraska Act -- Election stalemate -- The Kansas crusade -- The Free State Movement -- The southern emigration to Kansas -- The Lawrence raid -- The lost cause -- Civil War yearseng
dc.format.extentxi, 271 pages : illustratedeng
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10355/15167
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherUniversity of Missouri Presseng
dc.relation.ispartofUniversity of Missouri Press (MU)eng
dc.relation.ispartofcollectionUniversity of Missouri Presseng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri System. Office of Academic Affairs (UM). University of Missouri Presseng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Missouri studies (1926) ; v. 34, no. 1eng
dc.subject.lcshAtchison, David Rice, 1807-1886eng
dc.subject.lcshSlavery -- United States -- Extension to the territorieseng
dc.titleDavid Rice Atchison of Missouri, border politicianeng
dc.typeBookeng


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