As the 1850s progressed and armed hostilities escalated in "bleeding" Kansas, travelers increasingly traveled up the Missouri river to leave from or near Omaha.

Bleeding Kansas.

Bleeding Kansas was due to the Missouri Compromise and Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era (2006)

Bleeding Kansas (2008)

The administration of Democratic President Franklin Pierce had been marred by Bleeding Kansas.

Shooting broke out, and "bleeding Kansas" became a prelude to the Civil War.

As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery.

Bleeding Kansas was an atrocity, and in most cases, the pro-slavery groups won.

Bleeding Kansas (New York: Oxford University Press), 1954.