Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

by Mark W. Geiger

Winner of the 2011 Tom Watson Brown Book Award

An award-winning exploration of a Civil War financial conspiracy in Missouri--and its reverberations today

In this original work, Mark W. Geiger explores the impact of a previously unknown financial conspiracy in Civil War-era Missouri, a sham-loan scheme that devastated the state's planter elite, caused a revolution in land ownership, and fueled a ferocious insurgency...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300151519
• ISBN13: 9780300151510
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"