Law and order in Buffalo Bill's country : legal culture and community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 / Mark R. Ellis.
2007
KFN562 .E43 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
Law and order in Buffalo Bill's country : legal culture and community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 / Mark R. Ellis.
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Description
xix, 262 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series
Law in the American West.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Summary
"Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country is a case study of law and legal culture in Lincoln County, Nebraska, during the nineteenth century. Mark R. Ellis argues that nascent nineteenth-century Great Plains communities shared an understanding of the law that allowed for the immediate implementation of legal institutions such as courts, jails, and law enforcement. A common legal culture, imported from New England and the Midwest, influenced frontier communities to uphold traditions of law and order even in the "wild and wooly" frontier community of North Platte, Nebraska. This study is one of the first to examine legal institutions on the Great Plains. By setting aside the issue of a violent frontier West and focusing instead on community building and legal institutions, this study presents a very different image of the frontier-era Great Plains."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Ellis, Mark R. Law and order in Buffalo Bill's country. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007
Call Number
KFN562 .E43 2007
Language
English
ISBN
9780803218307 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0803218303 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0803218303 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
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