Border ruffian (English Wikipedia)

"Bleeding Kansas" Archived March 16, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, The E Pluribus Unum Project: America in the 1770s, 1850s, and 1920s, Assumption University

books.google.com

Phillips, Jason (2018), Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 29, ISBN 978-0-19-086817-8, archived from the original on May 14, 2022, retrieved March 11, 2021
Hinton, Richard Josiah. John Brown And His Men: With Some Account of the Roads They Traveled to Reach Harper's Ferry Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1894, p. 122.
Rawley, James A. Race and Politics: "Bleeding Kansas" and the Coming of the Civil War Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1969.

canteymyerscollection.com

Gilmore, Donald L., The Kansas 'Red Legs' as Missouri's Dark Underbelly (PDF), archived (PDF) from the original on March 16, 2021, retrieved March 16, 2021

civilwaronthewesternborder.org

Prichard, Jeremy. Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1855–1865. New England Emigrant Aid Company. Archived from the original on December 4, 2020. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
Matthew E. Stanley. Woodson, Daniel Archived October 10, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1855–1865
Rein, Christopher.Battle of Osawatomie Archived January 4, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854–1865.
O’Bryan, Tony. "Jayhawkers," Archived January 9, 2021, at the Wayback Machine Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854–1865
O'Bryan, Tony. "Red Legs," Archived March 2, 2021, at the Wayback Machine Civil War on the Western Border, The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854–1865

kancoll.org

Cutler, William G. History of the State of Kansas: Containing a Full Account of Its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State; of Its Early Settlements; Its Rapid Increase in Population; and the Marvelous Development of Its Great Natural Resources Archived April 8, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1883.

kansasboguslegislature.org

Clark, Charles, Benjamin F. Stringfellow, kansasboguslegislature.org, archived from the original on April 11, 2022, retrieved March 11, 2021
"Kansas Bogus Legislature: J. H. Stringfellow, Speaker of the House". Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2021.

kansasmemory.org

Copy of David R. Atchison speech to proslavery forces Archived November 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Kansas State Historical Society
Atchison, David R. (May 21, 1856). "Copy of David R. Atchison speech to proslavery forces". www.kansasmemory.org. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
National Kansas Relief Committee, minutes Archived January 4, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Kansas Historical Society

kshs.org

Hougen, Harvey R. (Summer 1985). "The Marais des Cygnes Massacre and the Execution of William Griffith". Kansas History. 8 (2): 76. Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
Documented political killings in Bleeding Kansas, Kansas Historical Society, archived from the original on January 16, 2021, retrieved March 13, 2021
Kansapedia: Kansas Territory Archived April 16, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, Kansas Historical Society
"Bogus Legislature". Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Society. 2013 [2011]. Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
Cheatham, Gary L. 'Desperate Characters': The Development and Impact of the Confederate Guerrilla Conflict in Kansas, Kansas History 14 (Autumn 1991): 144–161. Archived

ku.edu

territorialkansasonline.ku.edu

Territorial Kansas Online – Transcripts Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, Kansas State Historical Society
Emigrant Aid Organizations: Massachusetts State Kansas Committee Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, Territorial Kansas

legendsofamerica.com

"Bleeding Kansas & the Missouri Border War". Archived from the original on April 12, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2021.

longreads.com

Phillips, Jason (2018), Bowie Knives, Concealed Rifles, and Caning Charles Sumner, Adapted from The Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future, Oxford University Press, archived from the original on February 28, 2021, retrieved March 11, 2021

newsantafetrailer.blogspot.com

Pious Preacher or Radical Hypocrite? The Reverend Thomas Johnson Archived November 8, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, The New Santa Fe Trailer

nps.gov

"Bleeding Kansas". Fort Scott National Historic Site. paragraph 1. Archived from the original on June 21, 2008. Retrieved November 19, 2007.

si.edu

americanhistory.si.edu

Sharps Carbine, National Museum of American History, archived from the original on May 14, 2022, retrieved March 16, 2021

teachushistory.org

Kansas Matters – Appeal to the South Archived October 30, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, De Bow's Review, Vol 20, Issue 5, May 1, 1856, pp. 635-639.

u-s-history.com

Newlon, Jack, Rob Spooner, and Alicia Spooner. Bleeding Kansas: Mid 1850s – Precursor to the Civil War Archived June 30, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, in U-S-History.com. Online Highways, 2021

uchicago.edu

penelope.uchicago.edu

W. H. Isely. The Sharps Rifle Episode in Kansas History Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The American Historical Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Apr. 1907), pp. 546–566.

ushistory.org

Border Ruffians Archived February 27, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, U.S. History Online Textbook

web.archive.org

Clark, Charles, Benjamin F. Stringfellow, kansasboguslegislature.org, archived from the original on April 11, 2022, retrieved March 11, 2021
Phillips, Jason (2018), Bowie Knives, Concealed Rifles, and Caning Charles Sumner, Adapted from The Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future, Oxford University Press, archived from the original on February 28, 2021, retrieved March 11, 2021
Phillips, Jason (2018), Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 29, ISBN 978-0-19-086817-8, archived from the original on May 14, 2022, retrieved March 11, 2021
Sharps Carbine, National Museum of American History, archived from the original on May 14, 2022, retrieved March 16, 2021
Prichard, Jeremy. Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1855–1865. New England Emigrant Aid Company. Archived from the original on December 4, 2020. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
Newlon, Jack, Rob Spooner, and Alicia Spooner. Bleeding Kansas: Mid 1850s – Precursor to the Civil War Archived June 30, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, in U-S-History.com. Online Highways, 2021
"Bleeding Kansas". Fort Scott National Historic Site. paragraph 1. Archived from the original on June 21, 2008. Retrieved November 19, 2007.
Hougen, Harvey R. (Summer 1985). "The Marais des Cygnes Massacre and the Execution of William Griffith". Kansas History. 8 (2): 76. Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
Documented political killings in Bleeding Kansas, Kansas Historical Society, archived from the original on January 16, 2021, retrieved March 13, 2021
Territorial Kansas Online – Transcripts Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, Kansas State Historical Society
Copy of David R. Atchison speech to proslavery forces Archived November 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Kansas State Historical Society
"Kansas Bogus Legislature: J. H. Stringfellow, Speaker of the House". Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
Pious Preacher or Radical Hypocrite? The Reverend Thomas Johnson Archived November 8, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, The New Santa Fe Trailer
Matthew E. Stanley. Woodson, Daniel Archived October 10, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1855–1865
Atchison, David R. (May 21, 1856). "Copy of David R. Atchison speech to proslavery forces". www.kansasmemory.org. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
"Bleeding Kansas" Archived March 16, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, The E Pluribus Unum Project: America in the 1770s, 1850s, and 1920s, Assumption University
Kansas: A cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Chicago: Standard Pub. Co., 1912.
Cutler, William G. History of the State of Kansas: Containing a Full Account of Its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State; of Its Early Settlements; Its Rapid Increase in Population; and the Marvelous Development of Its Great Natural Resources Archived April 8, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1883.
Kansapedia: Kansas Territory Archived April 16, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, Kansas Historical Society
Kansas Matters – Appeal to the South Archived October 30, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, De Bow's Review, Vol 20, Issue 5, May 1, 1856, pp. 635-639.
Border Ruffians Archived February 27, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, U.S. History Online Textbook
"Bogus Legislature". Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Society. 2013 [2011]. Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
Rein, Christopher.Battle of Osawatomie Archived January 4, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854–1865.
Emigrant Aid Organizations: Massachusetts State Kansas Committee Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, Territorial Kansas
W. H. Isely. The Sharps Rifle Episode in Kansas History Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The American Historical Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Apr. 1907), pp. 546–566.
Massachusetts State Kansas Aid Committee Report, September 1858 Archived April 27, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, West Virginia Archives and History
National Kansas Relief Committee, minutes Archived January 4, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Kansas Historical Society
Hinton, Richard Josiah. John Brown And His Men: With Some Account of the Roads They Traveled to Reach Harper's Ferry Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1894, p. 122.
Rawley, James A. Race and Politics: "Bleeding Kansas" and the Coming of the Civil War Archived May 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1969.
"Bleeding Kansas & the Missouri Border War". Archived from the original on April 12, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
O’Bryan, Tony. "Jayhawkers," Archived January 9, 2021, at the Wayback Machine Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854–1865
O'Bryan, Tony. "Red Legs," Archived March 2, 2021, at the Wayback Machine Civil War on the Western Border, The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854–1865
Cheatham, Gary L. 'Desperate Characters': The Development and Impact of the Confederate Guerrilla Conflict in Kansas, Kansas History 14 (Autumn 1991): 144–161. Archived
Gilmore, Donald L., The Kansas 'Red Legs' as Missouri's Dark Underbelly (PDF), archived (PDF) from the original on March 16, 2021, retrieved March 16, 2021

wvculture.org

Massachusetts State Kansas Aid Committee Report, September 1858 Archived April 27, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, West Virginia Archives and History