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Hell on the range : a story of honor, conscience, and the American West / Daniel Justin Herman.

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In this lively account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s--what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War"--Historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. At the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Herman, Daniel Justin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2010.
Series:Lamar series in western history.
Subjects:
Payson (Ariz.) > History > 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > Arizona > Payson.
Rangelands > Arizona > Payson Region > History > 19th century.
Latter Day Saints > Arizona > Payson Region > History > 19th century.
Ranchers > Arizona > Payson Region > History > 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Ranchers.
Rangelands.
Arizona > Payson.
Arizona > Payson Region.
Electronic book.
History.
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Summary:In this lively account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s--what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War"--Historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. At the heart of Arizona's range war, argues Herman, was a conflict between cowboys' code of honor and Mormons' code of conscience.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 365 pages) : illustrations, map.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-342) and index.
ISBN:9780300168549
0300168543
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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