The Burnt District, Cass County, and the Youngers


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Carol Bohl, executive director of the Cass County Historical Society, tells the story of the Younger family and how their lives were dramatically changed by the Missouri-Kansas Border War and Order No. 11, which ordered the evacuation of Missourians from four border counties and the burning of their land.


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