Dark Command
[rating:2.0] While Dark Command is entertaining and surprisingly dark for 1940, it completely airbrushes the savagery that made the fighting in the Missouri-Kansas region a particularly brutal part of...
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[rating:1.5] Santa Fe Trail (1940) covers Bleeding Kansas and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, which helped start the American Civil War, but not even Errol Flynn's limitless charm can redeem a...
View ArticleWilliam Quantrill
Born in Ohio, William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837-June 6, 1865) failed as a school teacher, and drifted into Lawrence, Kansas, a pro-abolitionist center. Since he rode with both the abolitionist...
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