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Jeston Nash bears a striking resemblance to his cousin, Jesse James of Missouri. After killing a Yankee soldier in self-defense, Jeston joins cousins Jesse and Frank to fight in Quantrills guerrilla forces. Later, he rides with the James-Younger gang as they invent their special brand of bank and train robbery. All the while, Jeston seeks vengeance against Daniel Zanone of the Free Kansas Militia--the man responsible for the death of his child.

After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.

Ben Butterfield, ex-circus performer, looks back on his past, recalling the adventures he had in 1862 while attempting to help his friend Johnny Hawkes deliver two camels, confiscated as spoils of war, to the Indiana farm of a Yankee officer.

"From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York-the "agitators" of the title-acclaimed author Dorothy Wickenden tells the fascinating and crucially American stories of abolition, the Underground Railroad, the early women's rights movement, and the Civil War. Harriet Tubman-no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient, and strategically brilliant-was one of the most important conductors on the underground...

Jeff Bussey, a young farmer, joins the Union volunteers, and becomes a scout and soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and lives to tell about it.

In 1850s Kansas, two young families struggle with rattlesnakes, tornadoes, ice-storms, childbirth and morality in a war-torn land. A growing love between them, built over holiday ham and whiskey, is threatened as they are drawn into the territory's cycle of political violence. They must ultimately decide if they are friends or foes, and it isn't long before they all have blood on their hands. This novel asks how ordinary people cope with extraordinary...

The "Brothers' War" divides families. Luke Colton resolutely believes two things: slaves are crucial to the South's well-being, and states must be allowed to make their own laws. No one in his family agrees. Frustrated, Luke joins Confederate guerilla leader William Clarke Quantrill, confident that they will make a difference. By the time he figures out he is wrong, it's too late. Quantrill's out to burn down Lawrence and kill Luke for being a traitor....