Beyond the borders of the law : critical legal histories of the North American West / edited by Katrina Jagodinsky, Pablo Mitchell.

"In the American imagination "the West" denotes a border--between civilization and wilderness, past and future, native and newcomer--and its lawlessness is legendary. In fact, there was an abundance of law in the West, as in all borderland regions of vying and overlapping claims, juri...

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