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Winter, 2008
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The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line. By Jeremy Neely. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xx + 305 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
      Much has been written of the border conflict between Kansas and Missouri; however, what seems to be missing from the story is a systematic social and economic analysis of the "ordinary people" who settled there and lived through the turmoil of that conflict. Jeremy Neely examined this border by carefully looking at the demographic make-up of six counties—all contiguous with one another—three in Kansas (Miami, Linn, and Bourbon) and three in Missouri (Cass, Bates, and Vernon) to explain who settled there and why from the 1820s through the 1890s. The evidence is carefully drawn from diary entries, letters, newspapers, and, more importantly, from the federal census records in the six county area. It is Neely's statistical use of the census records that allows him to draw conclusions about the border. . . .
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