Red Legged Scouts

PorterStarrByrd · Mar 29, 2011

Anybody have any good references about the Red Legged Scouts of Kansas during the Civil War?

I am doing/have done some of the a google search but am intersted if anyone here knows much about them.

Stuck up here in Quebec, what books in the local library are in French, for the most part. The US history section isn't very wide either. I do have an outpost in South Jersey and get down there from time to time. I can ship to there from Abe Books or elsewhere.

I like to have a bunch of ducks all rowed up when I do make that trip

I am thinking historical novel on this one. Hickock and Cody were both in this outfit along with a lot of other Kansas frontiersmen and Pony Express types. Looks like there is plenty of action to write about here.

Lyra Jean · Mar 29, 2011

I don't know anything about them but when I'm studying a subject I look at Wikipedia and see what they use as headings and the books they use. It's a starting point.

PorterStarrByrd · Mar 29, 2011

Thanks much.

As I said I am googleing what is available on line and agree that wikopedia is a good starting place.

Though the chances are slim with something obscure like that, I am hoping someone might know a little more about it or have some insights on what they would like to see emphasized about it.

Yasaibatake · Mar 29, 2011

I don't know if I'm as good as Google, but I grew up less than half an hour from Lawrence, where the Red Legs are still very much celebrated. Almost everyone here knows at least the basics about them. Granted, to some people it's just another piece of history by now, but a lot of folks are still proud to be called Red Legs. Especially in Lawrence, where you can't walk around town without running into Quantrill's Raid in particular. Of course, across the border in Missouri that would be considered an insult. That's why I giggled when you called it obscure

We might be the only ones who care anymore, but I assure you we do! So even though I may not be able to answer all your questions myself but it shouldn't be too hard for me to find out if you'd like...

PorterStarrByrd · Mar 29, 2011

Yasaibatake said:
I don't know if I'm as good as Google, but I grew up less than half an hour from Lawrence, where the Red Legs are still very much celebrated. Almost everyone here knows at least the basics about them. Granted, to some people it's just another piece of history by now, but a lot of folks are still proud to be called Red Legs. Especially in Lawrence, where you can't walk around town without running into Quantrill's Raid in particular. Of course, across the border in Missouri that would be considered an insult. That's why I giggled when you called it obscure We might be the only ones who care anymore, but I assure you we do! So even though I may not be able to answer all your questions myself but it shouldn't be too hard for me to find out if you'd like...

Thanks much .. I will undoubtably have questions for you. I also just remembered that I used to chat with a librarian at KSU when my daughter was in the Air Force. (actually the Air Force Enisted Forum uses this same brand of web site)

Who knows I might plumb your depths for another novel I am writing about Ned Buntline who trolled you neighbor hood as well.

Thanx again

R. A. Lundberg · Apr 11, 2011

Ah, the redleg Jayhawkers.
Here in NW Arkansas, Northern and Southern "Scouts", "Militia", "Partisans" or whatever else they called themselves got called "Murdering Thieves" more often than not...Both sides happily raided this portion of the country into starvation, then depopulation once those who were left moved on. What the raiders didn't take, or burn, the US Army forced people to sell for all but useless script.
The Civil War (HA!) was every bit as hard on people here as it was in the Shenandoah or along Sherman's march...but you don't hear much about it.

Red Legged Scouts

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