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Author Cresswell, Stephen Edward.

Title Mormons & cowboys, moonshiners & Klansmen : federal law enforcement in the South & West, 1870-1893 / Stephen Cresswell
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Acknowledgments; 1. The Department of Justice and Federal Law Enforcement; 2. Enforcing the Enforcement Acts in Northern Mississippi; 3. One Man, One Wife; 4. Guarding the Treasury in the Southern Highlands; 5. The Anteroom to Statehood; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary In the decades immediately following the Civil War, the United States expanded rapidly. As the nation grew, so too did federal law, moving into areas of citizens' lives previously regulated by local custom and state and territorial statutes. In Mormons and Cowboys, Moonshiners and Klansmen, Cresswell uses then moves beyond a case-study approach to illuminate larger questions including the evolution of the American criminal justice system, the relationship of the South and the West to the rest of the nation, the workings of the 19th-century American bureaucracy, and conflict of the local, state,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-312) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject United States. Department of Justice -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT United States. Department of Justice fast
Subject Law enforcement -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Law enforcement -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Law enforcement -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement.
Law enforcement
Strafverfolgung
Geschichte (1870-1893)
Southern States
United States
West United States
USA -- Südstaaten
USA -- Weststaaten
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817382735
0817382739
0817311866
9780817311865
Other Titles Mormons and cowboys, moonshiners and Klansmen