Freedom's Frontier Book Club Selections
Bader, Robert Smith. Hayseeds, Moralizers and Methodists: The Twentieth-Century Image of Kansas. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988.
Blackwell, Marilyn S. and Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel. Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010.
Crockett, Ken. Missouri Coal Miner's Strike: They Gave Their Word. Harrisonville, MO: Burnt District Press, 2011.
Miner, H. Craig and William E. Unarau. The end of Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural Revolution, 1854-1871. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990.
Mutti Burke, Diane. On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Oertel, Kristin Tegtmeier. Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Silber, Matthew. Platte County's History Illustrated. Platte County Historical Society, 2015.
Vanderpool, Clare. Moon Over Manifest. New York: Delacorte Press, 2010.
Other Books of Interest
Boman, Dennis K. Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Earle, Jonathan and Diane Mutti Burke, Eds. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013.
Eickhoff, Diane and Aaron Barnhart. The Big Divide: A Travel Guide to Historic and Civil War Sites in the Missouri-Kansas Border Region. Kansas City: Quindaro Press, 2013.
