Editing Bleeding Kansas (section)

==Legacy==
===Heritage area===
In 2006, federal legislation defined a new [[Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area]] (FFNHA) and was approved by Congress. A task of the heritage area is to interpret Bleeding Kansas stories, which are also called stories of the Kansas–Missouri border war. A theme of the heritage area is the enduring struggle for freedom. FFNHA includes 41 counties, 29 of which are in eastern Kansas and 12 in western Missouri.<ref>[http://www.freedomsfrontier.org/uploads/resources/appendix%20a.pdf Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area Management Plan Appendices] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129072938/http://www.freedomsfrontier.org/uploads/resources/appendix%20a.pdf |date=November 29, 2014 }}, Freedomsfrontier.org/</ref>

===In popular culture===
The "Bleeding Kansas" period has been dramatically rendered in many works of American popular culture, including literature, theater, film, and television.
* ''[[Santa Fe Trail (film)|Santa Fe Trail]]'' (1940) is an American Western film set before the Civil War, which depicts John Brown's campaign during Bleeding Kansas, starring [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Errol Flynn]], and [[Raymond Massey]].
* In ''[[Seven Angry Men]]'' (1955), Raymond Massey again plays John Brown.
* ''[[The Jayhawkers!]] (1959)
* ''Wildwood Boys'' (William Morrow, New York; 2000) is a [[biographical novel]] of [[William T. Anderson|"Bloody Bill" Anderson]] by [[James Carlos Blake]].
* ''Bleeding Kansas'' (2008) by [[Sara Paretsky]] is a novel depicting social and political conflicts in present-day Kansas with many references to the 19th-century events.
* ''[[The Good Lord Bird]]'' (2013) is a novel by James McBride adapted into [[The Good Lord Bird (miniseries)|a 2020 miniseries]] starring [[Ethan Hawke]] as John Brown.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.darkhorizons.com/diggs-russell-join-hawkes-good-lord-bird/|website=darkhorizons.com|title=Diggs, Russell Join Hawke's "Good Lord Bird"|author=Garth Franklin|date=August 3, 2019|access-date=August 5, 2019|archive-date=August 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804141356/http://www.darkhorizons.com/diggs-russell-join-hawkes-good-lord-bird/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[The Outlaw Josey Wales]]'' (1976), an American western film set during and after the Civil War which depicts violence in the aftermath of Bleeding Kansas.  The character of Granny, who is from Kansas, had a son who she said "was killed by Missouri ruffians in the Border War".
* ''Bad Blood, the Border War that Triggered the Civil War'' (2007), a documentary film<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.kansascitypbs.org/local-shows/bad-blood/ |title=Bad Blood, the Border War that Triggered the Civil War |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-9777261-4-1 |publisher=Kansas City Public Television and Wide Awake Films |access-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523163824/https://www.kansascitypbs.org/local-shows/bad-blood/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The November 8, 2014, episode of ''[[Hell on Wheels (season 4)|Hell on Wheels]]'', titled "Bleeding Kansas", depicts a white family being slain for having slaves, who were then freed, in the name of religion<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tvfanatic.com/2014/11/hell-on-wheels-season-4-episode-11-review-bleeding-kansas/ |title=Hell on Wheels Season 4 Episode 11 Review: Bleeding Kansas |date=November 8, 2014 |access-date=November 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109064550/http://www.tvfanatic.com/2014/11/hell-on-wheels-season-4-episode-11-review-bleeding-kansas/ |archive-date=November 9, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''When Kings Reigned'' (2017), a docudrama directed by Ian Ballinger and Alison Dover is about fishermen living along the [[Kansas River]] during and after the Bleeding Kansas era and the persecution they faced from local governments.
* ''[[The Kents]]'', a 12-issue miniseries of comics written by [[John Ostrander]], explores the history of [[Superman]]'s adoptive family set against the conflicts of the Bleeding Kansas era.