Law and order in Buffalo Bill's country : legal culture and community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 /
Celebrated accounts of lawless towns that relied on the extra-legal justice of armed citizens and hired gunmen are part of the enduring cultural legacy of the American West. This work presents a case study of law and legal culture in Lincoln County, Nebraska, during the nineteenth century. It also e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | Law in the American West.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : State of Nebraska v. John Burley
- Buffalo Bill's country : Lincoln County, Nebraska, and its crime
- Conservators of the peace : sheriffs, deputies, and railroad detectives
- Receptacles of crime : jails, reformatories, and the state penitentiary
- Regulating a Great Plains railroad town : police courts, municipal ordinances, and the North Platte police force
- Temples of justice : criminal courts and their officers
- Hanging out the shingle : lawyers and legal communities on the Great Plains
- Conclusion : law and order in Buffalo Bill's country.