A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas: Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace

by William Monks and Monks William

Book Overview

Originally published in 1907 and now reprinted for the first time, this is the only account published by a Union guerrilla in the border region of the central Ozarks, where political and civil violence lasted from the Civil War well into the 1880s.

There were probably many people who wanted to shoot Billy Monks. He was a Union patriot and skilled guerrilla fighter to some, but others called him a bushwhacker, a murderer, and a thief. His...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557287538
• ISBN13: 9781557287533
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"