Soldiers Were Never on More Disagreeable Service: Peace Operations in Territorial Kansas and the Trans-Missouri West, 1854-1956 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288741779)

Although historians have written a great deal on "Bleeding Kansas" and on the frontier army's constabulary role in the trans-Missouri west, little scholarship exists regarding how the army performed its peacekeeping and peace enforcement missions in the 1850s. This dissertation seeks to fill that void. Chapters include: great expectations, limited resources- the frontier army as a constabulary force, 1854-1856; political means and ends- expansion and slavery collide in Kansas, 1854-1856; the army, Indians, and peace enforcement operations of the Plains- the Sioux expedition of 1855; conflicting interests- peace, land, and speculation in territorial Kansas, 1854-1856; from the "Wakarusa War" to the dispersal of the Topeka legislature- peacekeeping and command, control, communications and information (C3I) during "Bleeding Kansas"; and applying the tourniquet of peace- John Geary, the army, and the election of 1856.

Author: Tony R. Mullis
ISBN-10: 1288741774
ISBN-13: 9781288741779
Publisher: Bibliogov
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2013
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.82d