1st Edition

Law in the West The American West

Edited By Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington Copyright 2001
510 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Series Dedication, Series Introduction, Volume Dedication, Volume Introduction, What's Old About the New Western History? Part 3: Law, Some Lessons of Western Legal History, Outlaw Gangs of the Middle Border: American Social Bandits, Chinese in Trouble: Criminal Law and Race on the Trans-Mississippi West Frontier, Popular Sovereignty, Vigilantism, and the Constitutional Right of Revolution, Crime and Punishment: Los Angeles County, 1850-1856, Rough Justice: Felony Crime and the Superior Court in San Luis Obispo County,1880-1910, Bearers of the Burden: Justices of the Peace, Their Courts and the Law, in Orange County, California, 1870-1907, The Chinese and the Courts in the Pacific Northwest: Justice Denied?, Enterprise and Equity:, A Critique of Western Water Law in the Nineteenth Century, The San Joaquin Grant: Who Owned the Common Lands? A Historical-Legal Puzzle, Captives of Law: Judicial Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws, 1891-1905, Protection of the Family Home from Seizure by Creditors: The Sources and Evolution of a Legal Principle, Law and Legal Tender in California and the West, The Development of Mortgage Law in Frontier California, 1850-1890, Part I: 1850-1866, The Development of Mortgage Law in Frontier California, 1850-1890, Part II: 1867-1880, The Development of Mortgage Law in Frontier California, 1850-1890, Part III: 1880-1890, Community Property Law and the Politics of Married Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century California, Send the Bird and Cage: The Development of Divorce Law in Wyoming, 1868-1900, Acknowledgments

Biography

Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington