| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Book Review

Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas. By Robert K. DeArment. Foreword by Richard Maxwell Brown. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xiii + 266 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

The violent episodes of Kansas history have attracted the attention of historians, journalists, and others since the first histories of the turbulent territorial era were published in the late 1850s. Conflict and bloodshed still sell of course, so it should not be surprising that Bleeding Kansas remains a favorite topic of popular and scholarly history. Although we know much less about the state's post-Civil War county-level contests over the location of county seats, relatively speaking they have received considerable attention, both as exciting frontier narratives complete with quirky characters and gunfights, and as examples of a bigger theme of frontier or American-style political violence, perhaps best represented by the work of sociologist James A. Schellenberg. Ballots and Bullets falls into the former category.

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