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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herman, Daniel Justin.

Series:

Lamar series in western history

The Lamar series in western history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ranchers.

History.

Latter Day Saints.

Rangelands.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Payson Region (Ariz.)--History--19th century.

Payson Region (Ariz.).

Frontier and pioneer life--Arizona--Payson Region.

Rangelands--Arizona--Payson Region--History--19th century.

Latter Day Saints--Arizona--Payson Region--History--19th century.

Ranchers--Arizona--Payson Region--History--19th century.

Arizona--Payson Region.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]

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. Their story, contends Herman, offers a fresh perspective on Western violence, Western identity, and American cultural history. At the heart of Arizona's range war, argues Herman, was a conflict between cowboys' code of honor and Mormons' code of conscience. He investigates the sources of these attitudes, tracks them into the early twentieth century, and offers rich insights into the roots of American violence and peace. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

Contents:

Home on the range

The Saints march in

The honor of ruin

The trials of the Saints

Cowboys and criminals

Hell on the range

The honor of vengeance

Killing conscience

Understanding

Water on the fires

Courting conscience

Honor anew.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300137361

0300137362

OCLC:

601348221