Coming to movie theaters in the Fall of 1999 is the latest installment in the Quantrill saga, Ang Lee’s Ride With the Devil. Far from being a footnote to the history of the Civil War, consigned to dusty tomes and quickly forgotten, it continues to fascinate, even perplex historians, novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers alike-even if none of them seem to agree on the general outlines, much less the details of his life. A leaf that falls and is gone.” But the story of guerrilla chieftain William Clarke Quantrill and the infamous raid he led against Lawrence, Kansas in the summer of 1863 still lives on. A man sings, loves, fights, and then he’s nothing. William Clarke Quantrill 1 “A little time is all any of us have,” declares a guerrilla raider in the motion picture, The Jayhawkers, “-most of it lonely. Tibbetts Here’s a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky’s above me, Here’s a heart for every fate. Riding with the Devil: The Movie Adventures of William Clarke Quantrill by John C.
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