Inferior Courts, Superior Justice: A History of the Justices of the Peace on the Northwest Frontier, 1853-1889
By (Author) J. R. Wunder
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
21st February 1979
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History: specific events and topics
347.950716
Hardback
246
A detailed, exhaustively researched examination of the justice of the peace in one frontier area, the Pacific Northwest.
JOHN R. WUNDER is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Retained by The People: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights (1994), Inferior Courts, Superior Justice: Justices of the Peace on the Northwest Frontier, 1853-1889 (Greenwood, 1979), and other books and articles.