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050 00 $aKFN562$b.E45 2007
082 00 $a364.9781/53209034$222
100 1 $aEllis, Mark R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007006155
245 10 $aLaw and order in Buffalo Bill's country :$blegal culture and community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 /$cMark R. Ellis.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axix, 262 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aLaw in the American West
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-251) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: State of Nebraska v. John Burley -- $g1.$tBuffalo Bill's Country: Lincoln County, Nebraska, and Its Crime -- $g2.$tConservators of the Peace: Sheriffs, Deputies, and Railroad Detectives -- $g3.$tReceptacles of Crime: Jails, Reformatories, and the State Penitentiary -- $g4.$tRegulating a Great Plains Railroad Town: Police Courts, Municipal Ordinances, and the North Platte Police Force -- $g5.$tTemples of Justice: Criminal Courts and Their Officers -- $g6.$tHanging Out the Shingle: Lawyers and Legal Communities on the Great Plains -- $tConclusion: Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country.
520 1 $a"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.
650 0 $aJustice, Administration of$zNebraska$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aJustice, Administration of$zNebraska$zLincoln County$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aCrime$zNebraska$zLincoln County$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLaw enforcement$zNebraska$zLincoln County$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMunicipal courts$zNebraska$zLincoln County$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aLincoln County (Neb.)$xHistory$y19th century.
830 0 $aLaw in the American West.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90636463
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014352.html
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