Mormons & cowboys, moonshiners & Klansmen : federal law enforcement in the South & West, 1870-1893 / Stephen Cresswell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cresswell, Stephen Edward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law enforcement--Southern States--History--19th century.

Law enforcement.

Law enforcement--United States--History--19th century.

Law enforcement--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.

United States. Department of Justice--History--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Mormons and cowboys, moonshiners and Klansmen

Mormons and cowboys, moonshiners and Klansmen.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the decades immediately following the Civil War, the United States expanded rapidly. As the nation grew, so too did federal law, moving into areas of citizens' lives previously regulated by local custom and state and territorial statutes.In Mormons and Cowboys, Moonshiners and Klansmen, Cresswell uses then moves beyond a case-study approach to illuminate larger questions including the evolution of the American criminal justice system, the relationship of the South and the West to the rest of the nation, the workings of the 19th-century American bureaucracy, and conflict of the local, state,

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Department of Justice and Federal Law Enforcement; 2. Enforcing the Enforcement Acts in Northern Mississippi; 3. One Man, One Wife; 4. Guarding the Treasury in the Southern Highlands; 5. The Anteroom to Statehood; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-312) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8273-9

OCLC:

654278930