Women Who Kill Men

Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington

• Hardcover | Engels | Law in the American West
• The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their r... Lees meer

Slipping Backward

James W Hewitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Law in the American West | nr. 8
• Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court , written by one of the state's leading legal minds, is the first history of the Nebraska S... Lees meer

Women Who Kill Men

Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington

• Paperback | Engels | Law in the American West
• The period 1870-1958 was revolutionary in the lives of women. Society's shifting perceptions of women and their role were apparent in the courtroom. W... Lees meer

Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country

Mark R Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | Law in the American West
• Celebrated accounts of lawless towns that relied on the extra-legal justice of armed citizens and hired gunmen are part of the enduring cultural legac... Lees meer

Lone Wolf V. Hitchcock

Blue Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Law in the American West
• Landmark court cases in the history of formal U.S. relations with Indian tribes are Corn Tassel, Standing Bear, Crow Dog, and Lone Wolf. Each exemplif... Lees meer

Imperfect Victories

Mark R Scherer

• Paperback | Engels | Law in the American West
• The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska has borne more than its fair share of the burden created by the federal government's wildly vacillating Indian policy. Mar... Lees meer

Sunflower Justice

R Alton Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Law in the American West
• Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state c... Lees meer

Slipping Backward

James W Hewitt

• Paperback | Engels | Law in the American West | nr. 8
• Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court , written by one of the state's leading legal minds, is the first history of the Nebraska S... Lees meer

In Cold Storage

James W Hewitt

• Paperback | Engels | Law in the American West
• 2016 Nebraska Book Award In Cold Storage is an excellent history of one of the more sensational crimes in Nebraska history. -- Steven Guenzel, Nebrask... Lees meer

Practicing Law in Frontier California

Gordon Morris Bakken

• Paperback | Engels | Law in the American West
• In Practicing Law in Frontier California Gordon Morris Bakken combines collective biography with an analysis of the function of the bar in a rapidly c... Lees meer

The Trial of Indian Joe

Clare V McKanna

• Paperback | Engels | Law in the American West
• On the night of 16 October 1892, a double homicide occurred on Otay Mesa in San Diego County near the Mexican border. The two victims were an elderly ... Lees meer

A Germ of Goodness

Shelley Bookspan

• Hardcover | Engels | Law in the American West | nr. 3
• For most of the ninety-three years between 1851, when the California State Legislature faced the problem of what to do with criminals, until 1944, whe... Lees meer

Federal Justice in California

Christian G Fritz

• Hardcover | Engels | Law in the American West | nr. 1
• For forty years Ogden Hoffman presided over the federal district court for the Northern District of California, disposing of more than nineteen thousa... Lees meer

The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854

• Paperback | Engels | Law in the American West | nr. 10
• The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 turns upside down the traditional way of thinking about one of the most important laws ever passed in American history... Lees meer

Called to Justice

Warren K Urbom

• Hardcover | Engels | Law in the American West
• Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom was assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day arm... Lees meer