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Law for the elephant : property and social behavior on the Overland Trail / by John Phillip Reid.
LIBRA KF366 .R43 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, John Phillip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--West (U.S.)--History.
- Law.
- Property--West (U.S.)--History.
- Property.
- History.
- West (U.S.)--Social conditions.
- West (U.S.).
- Overland journeys to the Pacific.
- Physical Description:
- x, 437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Marino, CA : Huntington Library, 1997.
- Summary:
- For most of their journey, travelers on the overland trail to California in the 1840s and 1850s were beyond the reach of the law and its enforcers, the police and the courts. Yet, not only did the law play a large role in life on the trail, it was a law hardly distinguishable from the one the emigrants had left behind. John Phillip Reid demonstrates how seriously overlanders regarded the rights of property and personal ownership when they went west as he explores their diaries, letters, and memoirs, giving an unusually rich and vivid picture of life on the overland trail.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0873281640
- OCLC:
- 36277529
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