Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country : Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 (Law in the American West)

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Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country : Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 (Law in the American West)

Ellis, Mark R.

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University of Nebraska Press（2009/07発売）
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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 300 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780803227873
DDC分類 364.978153209034

Full Description

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 image of the frontier has been fueled for more than a century by historians—both amateur and academic—and by various popular images. In the twenty-first century, Great Plains communities continue to perpetuate this image with tourist attractions and events that pay homage to their "lawless" past. But these romanticized depictions of the violent frontier do not accurately portray the legal culture of most early Great Plains communities. 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.

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index