The War in Kansas

by George Douglas Brewerton

A rough trip to the border, among new homes and a strange people.

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.

400 pages, Hardcover

First published June 20, 1856

About the author

George Douglas Brewerton (1820 - May 31, 1901) was an American artist, author, journalist, Yankee Protestant pastor, historian, lawyer, poet, and army officer. He specialized in painting landscapes and marines, and in sketch art.

Brewerton trained as a soldier at West Point, and crossed from California to New Mexico Territory in 1848 as part of the Army attachment accompanying Kit Carson.

Brewerton's Southwest oil paintings were some of the first landscapes of the New Mexico territory exhibited in New York.

He died in 1901.

Reviews

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part travel memoirs from a Northern journalist travelling to Kansas and Missouri during the Bleeding Kansas Conflict for the other part it reproduces official communiques and statements of the governor and other officials.

I recall the author adding overly fancy words mixed with typical slang in the first part of the book. It's also noticable that the author is from the North because he tends to quote Kansans and Missourians phonetically. The reproducing of official statements somewhat stands in the way of the flow of the narratives.