TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ponce,Pearl T.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - To govern the devil in hell: the political crisis in territorial Kansas 
SN  - 9781609091590
AV  - F685 .P66 2014
U1  - 978.1/02 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - DeKalb, IL
PB  - NIU Press
KW  - Kansas
KW  - History
KW  - 1854-1861
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Jupiter's gift: the creation of Kansas Territory -- Territorial politics and the struggle for party supremacy, 1854-1855 -- Kansas in 1856: the escalating conflict -- Congress and the Kansas issue in 1856 -- The 1856 presidential campaign and Kansas as a party issue -- Pledges and principles: Buchanan, Walker, and Kansas in 1857 -- "The noise of democracy": the struggle over the Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas -- Conclusion: "To the stars through difficulty"
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781609091590/
ER  -