Law and the Great Plains: Essays on the Legal History of the Heartland

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This collection of essays by some of the most respected American legal scholars represents the first investigation of the legal history of the Great Plains. It challenges existing theories about the legal culture of the region by showing the area's distinctiveness. The four-part study offers overviews of law and the region, analyses landmark cases, discusses the impact of important legal thinkers, and provides a short history and case studies of the work of leading jurists. Designed to what the appetite of legal scholars and historians who want to consider new ideas and study a little-known field.

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"These diverse essays are effectively made into a coherent whole by the editor's introduction and section prefaces....[This book] will greatly stimulate the interest of legal historians."-The American Journal of Legal History
These diverse essays are effectively made into a coherent whole by the editor's introduction and section prefaces....[This book] will greatly stimulate the interest of legal historians.-The American Journal of Legal History

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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.