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Law and order in Buffalo Bill's country : legal culture and community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910
- Title
- Law and order in Buffalo Bill's country : legal culture and community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 / Mark R. Ellis.
- Author
- Ellis, Mark R.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xix, 262 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm.
- 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Law in the American West
- Uniform Title
- Law in the American West.
- Subjects
- Law enforcement > Nebraska > Lincoln County > History > 19th century
- Crime > Nebraska > Lincoln County > History > 19th century
- Justice, Administration of > Nebraska > Lincoln County > History > 19th century
- Justice, Administration of > Nebraska > History > 19th century
- Municipal courts > Nebraska > Lincoln County > History > 19th century
- Lincoln County (Neb.) > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-251) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: State of Nebraska v. John Burley -- 1. Buffalo Bill's Country: Lincoln County, Nebraska, and Its Crime -- 2. Conservators of the Peace: Sheriffs, Deputies, and Railroad Detectives -- 3. Receptacles of Crime: Jails, Reformatories, and the State Penitentiary -- 4. Regulating a Great Plains Railroad Town: Police Courts, Municipal Ordinances, and the North Platte Police Force -- 5. Temples of Justice: Criminal Courts and Their Officers -- 6. Hanging Out the Shingle: Lawyers and Legal Communities on the Great Plains -- Conclusion: Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country.
- ISBN
- 9780803218307 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0803218303 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007014352
- OCLC
- 123284566
- SCSB-5370257
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries