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William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. Quantrill experienced a turbulent childhood, became a schoolteacher, and joined a group of bandits who roamed the Missouri and Kansas countryside to apprehend escaped slaves.
William McWaters (ca. 1844–1875) was an American gunfighter from Missouri who once rode with William Clarke Quantrill. Though not as well known today as the likes of the James-Younger Gang , McWaters did belong to that fraternity of dangerous men spawned by the Kansas-Missouri border wars and American Civil War .
Articles relating to Quantrill's Raiders (1861-1865), their membership, and their depictions. They were the best-known of the pro-Confederate partisan guerrillas (also known as "bushwhackers") who fought in the American Civil War. Their leader was William Quantrill and they included Jesse James and his brother Frank.
Reuben Cogburn was born on July 15, 1825, according to the tombstone in the John Wayne adaptation, though the character in the novel is about 39 . Cogburn was a veteran of the American Civil War who served under Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill, where Cogburn lost his eye.
The Lone Ranger episode "The Twisted Track" (1956) is about a member of Quantrill's Raiders (William Henry) seeking revenge against a Union officer. Though historically inaccurate, Allied Artists Pictures made a B-Western entitled Quantrill’s Raiders (1958), starring Steve Cochran as a fictionalized hero and with Leo Gordon as the title ...
In Telltale's 2012 video game The Walking Dead, Quantrill's raid is mentioned as two characters, Lee and Omid, bond over Civil War history. In "Weekend Warriors" the 6th episode of season 1 of Psych , originally aired August 11, 2006, a reenactment of the battle in Lawrence, KS, where Quantrill is killed is the scene for the murder that is the ...
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