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Author Luckett, Matthew S., author

Title Never caught twice : horse stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850-1890 / Matthew S. Luckett
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 341 pages) : illustrations, portraits, maps
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction: Maps Meridians, and Mounts in Western Nebraska -- You Must Watch Your Horses -- Theft Cultures -- The Horse Wars -- A Most Tempting Business -- From Thieves to Villains -- When Horse Thieves Were Hanged -- Epilogue: The Old West in Miniature
Summary "Never Caught Twice offers a comprehensive cross-cultural study of horse theft as a crime, a transactional activity, and an intercultural phenomenon on the Great Plains of Western Nebraska"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- 19th century
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century
Horse stealing -- Nebraska -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Frontier and pioneer life
Horse stealing
Indians of North America
Great Plains
Nebraska
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse. distributor.
LC no. 2020007876
ISBN 149622325X
9781496223258