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Author Ellis, Mark R.

Title Law and order in Buffalo Bill's country : legal culture and community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 / Mark R. Ellis
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 262 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Law in the American West
Law in the American West.
Contents 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
Summary 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 work presents a case study of law and legal culture in Lincoln County, Nebraska, during the nineteenth century. It also examines legal institutions on the Great Plains
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index
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Subject Justice, Administration of -- Nebraska -- History -- 19th century
Justice, Administration of -- Nebraska -- Lincoln County -- History -- 19th century
Crime -- Nebraska -- Lincoln County -- History -- 19th century
Law enforcement -- Nebraska -- Lincoln County -- History -- 19th century
Municipal courts -- Nebraska -- Lincoln County -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Crime
Justice, Administration of
Law enforcement
Municipal courts
Verbrechen
Strafvollzug
Justiz
SUBJECT Lincoln County (Neb.) -- History -- 19th century
Subject Nebraska
Nebraska -- Lincoln County
Nebraska
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803258020
080325802X
1281092207
9781281092205
9786611092207
661109220X