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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| Author:
| Ellis, Mark R. |
| Series title: | Law in the American West Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-281-09220-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionLaw 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."