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Hunting down his quarry in Kansas brought back memories Jed Herne had kept locked away for more than twenty years.Standing over a dying man those nightmares came flooding back. He'd seen a man he knew who'd ridden with Quantrill back in the bloody fighting against the Missouri Jayhawkers twenty years back, butchered by a man who'd used his three year old daughter as bait. Later that same day Herne had also seen William Quantrill hang both man and child from a branch of the same tree.It had been a bad War. He'd been a young boy, full of gall, with his friend Whitey Coburn, dead for more than a year now. He had rode alongside the Younger and James brothers as part of Quantrill's Raiders through Missouri and Kansas. They'd killed around a thousand folks that year of sixty-three.On August 21 the Raiders launched a raid on Lawrence, Kansas. Their main target was Senator Jim Lane but the guerrillas killed men and boys before burning the town to the ground.These were the memories Jed...