so if you want to try to find everything that belongs to william clarke quantrill, be my guest. but as far as i can tell, he was a pretty nasty person. anything else? [ applause ] >>> friday night american history tv is in prime time with c-span's cities tour focusing on religion. first we'll take you to the oldest baptist church congregation in the united states founded by roger williams in providence, rhode island. the tour also includes a visit to a native-american cultural center in alabama and a christian sect in albany, new york. american history tv in prime time friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> in the years before the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, tacoma was not similar to other cities of the puget sound and really the southwest. the percentage of the population was really mostly native-americans. coming over the trail and then some by sea small little villages really of americans and europeans had arrived. but mostly along the shoreline, and that was because the primary purpose here for people that were settling was cutting timber and milling timber. that was

one young man by the name of william clark quantril became a guerrilla leader. i have a problem calling him a guerrilla. to me he's really a thug. by the time he finished he had some of the nastiest people you could ever imagine in his guerrilla band. bloody bill anderson was part of his band. toward the end, people who were around him said that every time he was beginning to think of killing people he'd literally start foaming at the mouth. cole younger was part of the gang. frank james, and later his kid brother jesse james were part of this whole thing. everything came to a head, a tragic head in august 1863 and you know all about that because you've heard the names of the people killed in quantril's raid on lawrence in 1863. there were 400 guerrillas. they were directed to kill every man and every boy tall enough to hold a gun. as you know about 200 were killed. and there's some we're not even sure about. so 200 more or less were killed. quantril's raid was the most gruesome act in the entire civil war, and most historians would agree that. the descriptions

so if you want to try to find everything that belongs to william clarke quantrill, be my guest. but as far as i can tell, he was a pretty nasty person. anything else? [ applause ] >>> friday night american history tv is in prime time with c-span's cities tour focusing on religion. first we'll take you to the oldest baptist church congregation in the united states founded by roger williams in providence, rhode island. the tour also includes a visit to a native-american cultural center in alabama and a christian sect in albany, new york. american history tv in prime time friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> in the years before the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, tacoma was not similar to other cities of the puget sound and really the southwest. the percentage of the population was

so if you want to try to find everything that belongs to william clarke quantrill, be my guest. but as far as i can tell, he was a pretty nasty person. anything else? [ applause ] >>> friday night american history tv is in prime time with c-span's cities tour focusing on religion. first we'll take you to the oldest baptist church congregation in the united states founded by roger williams in providence, rhode island. the tour also includes a visit to a