![]() ![]() Soon everyone but Mary knows what Will is and the town begins to hate her. Right after their marriage, Will leaves Mary to rejoin his men, whom Mary thinks are part of the Confederate army. Now feeling very alone and believing that Will is not only a good friend but a good Southern soldier, Mary finally agrees to marry him. McCloud stands up to the crowd in his bank, but soon violence erupts and he is killed. Because Mary's father is a strong supporter of the South, many of the townspeople turn against him and start a run on his bank. While the war continues, sympathizers for the North and South become more and more divided in Lawrence. As Will becomes richer and more powerful, people begin to suspect him, especially as Lawrence is the only town that seems to have been free from the raids. When the Civil War breaks out, Will's men, in the guise of Confederate soldiers, begin a campaign of looting and pillaging. His tactics with the jury work and Fletch is soon found not guilty and released. Realizing that he may finally be able to win Mary's love, Will defends Bob at his trial during the day and at night rides with his guerillas to terrorize each jury member into voting for an acquittal. Bob knows that it is his duty to make Fletch stand trial, however, and refuses her offer. Mary pleads with Bob to let her brother go, and even offers to become his wife if he will release Fletch. Fletch, who had previously hero-worshiped Bob, now turns against him. When Mary's wild, younger brother Fletch accidently kills a man who is saying insulting things about their father, Bob reluctantly arrests him. ![]() Will and Bob are both in love with Mary McCloud, the feisty daughter of town banker Angus McCloud, who is a Southern sympathizer. His mother, who insists on posing as his housekeeper so that no one will know that he comes from a family in which his father and brother were criminals, warns Will against giving in to his "bad blood," but Will refuses to listen. Despite his mother's pleas to remain honest, Will decides to build his empire on the clandestine running of guns and slaves among neighboring states. In 1861, William Cantrell, a schoolteacher with a burning ambition to become a leader of men, becomes embittered when he is defeated for the post of marshall of Lawrence, Kansas by Bob Seton, an unlettered but honest cowboy. ![]()
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