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Bridget Barry

Law in the American West

This series contains new scholarship on the history of law in the American West. A broad range of subjects such as the history of legal doctrine, legal personalities, law enforcement, common law evolution, significant case biography, law at local, territorial, state, or national levels, multi-cultural legal systems, crime, the bench and bar, family law, and civil law are covered. The series geographically encompasses the trans-Appalachian and trans-Mississippi Wests, including Alaska and Hawaii. The series includes works embracing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century frontier America, as well as the twentieth-century American West.

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Sunflower Justice

Sunflower Justice

A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court

R. Alton Lee

March 2014

Nebraska

In Cold Storage

In Cold Storage

Sex and Murder on the Plains

James W. Hewitt

July 2015

Bison Books

Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country

Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country

Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910

Mark R. Ellis

July 2009

Nebraska Paperback

Women Who Kill Men

Women Who Kill Men

California Courts, Gender, and the Press

Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington

October 2009

Nebraska

Slipping Backward

Slipping Backward

A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court

James W. Hewitt

July 2007

Nebraska

Called to Justice

Called to Justice

The Life of a Federal Trial Judge

Warren K. Urbom
Foreword by William Jay Riley

October 2012

Bison Original

The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854

The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854

Edited by John R. Wunder and Joann M. Ross

July 2008

Nebraska Paperback

Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock

Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock

Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Blue Clark

November 1999

Nebraska

Imperfect Victories

Imperfect Victories

The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945-1995

Mark R. Scherer

March 2009

Nebraska Paperback

The Trial of "Indian Joe"

The Trial of "Indian Joe"

Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West

Clare V. McKanna Jr

September 2007

Nebraska Paperback

Practicing Law in Frontier California

Practicing Law in Frontier California

Gordon Morris Bakken

March 2006

Nebraska Paperback

A Germ of Goodness

A Germ of Goodness

The California State Prison System, 1851-1944

Shelley Bookspan

November 1991

Nebraska

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