now, they are not really frontier, that's agricultural, but joe shelby is that confederate general and in border roping. these are not frontier in the sense of unincorporated into the american economy, we have well established institutions. so i think due to the nature of guerrilla warfare, when you literally have neighbors fighting against neighbors, and when you've got to control the civilian population, on both sides, so when people are raiding, even before they start killing, they are raiding people's houses, they are arresting people and enacting fines, they are robbing the confederates are robbing people and the union forces are, you know, burning people out. i mean, it cycles up and cycles up very quickly. and you have a few figured um like bloody bill anderson who are leaders emphasizing the ruthlessness and pushing it. so again, it's on both sides. they are decorating their bridles with anderson's men's scalps as well. it appears on both sides. it's not a morality tale of good against darkness, as much as i believe slavery is bad, in missouri both sides are very ruthless. i th