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Article: The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- February 1, 2009
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The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line. By Jeremy Neely. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xx], 305. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1729-5.)
Jeremy Neely introduces his history of the nineteenth-century Kansas-Missouri border with an apt metaphor from our own times--college sports. The raucous present-day athletic contests between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the University of Missouri Tigers recall shared passions of war and truce anchored in the deepest recesses of the region's historical consciousness and laden with layers of contested meaning. Neely's border is that part south of the ...