Law and order in Buffalo Bill's country : legal culture and community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ellis, Mark R.
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Series:Law in the American West.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Justice, Administration of > Nebraska > History > 19th century.
Justice, Administration of > Nebraska > Lincoln County > History > 19th century.
Crime > Nebraska > Lincoln County > History > 19th century.
Law enforcement > Nebraska > Lincoln County > History > 19th century.
Municipal courts > Nebraska > Lincoln County > History > 19th century.
Lois > Application > Nebraska > Lincoln (Comté) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Cours municipales > Nebraska > Lincoln (Comté) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Crime.
Justice, Administration of.
Law enforcement.
Municipal courts.
Verbrechen
Strafvollzug
Justiz
Lincoln County (Neb.) > History > 19th century.
Nebraska.
Nebraska > Lincoln County.
Nebraska
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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