Law in the West

Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington

• Series Dedication, Series Introduction, Volume Dedication, Volume Introduction, What's Old About the New Western History? Part 3: Law, Some Lessons of Western Legal History, Outlaw Gangs of the Middle Border: American Social Bandits, Chinese in Trouble: Criminal Law and Race on the Trans-Mississippi West Frontier, Popular Sovereignty, Vigilantism, and the Constitutional Right of Revolution, Crime and Punishment: Los Angeles County, 1850-1856, Rough Justice: Felony Crime and the Superior Court in San Luis Obispo County,1880-1910, Bearers of the Burden: Justices of the Peace, Their Courts and the Law, in Orange County, California, 1870-1907, The Chinese and the Courts in the Pacific Northwest: Justice Denied?, Enterprise and Equity:, A Critique of Western Water Law in the Nineteenth Century, The San Joaquin Grant: Who Owned the Common Lands? A Historical-Legal Puzzle, Captives of Law: Judicial Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws, 1891-1905, Protection of the Family Home from Seizure by Creditors: The Sources and Evolution of a Legal Principle, Law and Legal Tender in California and the West, The Development of Mortgage Law in Frontier California, 1850-1890, Part I: 1850-1866, The Development of Mortgage Law in Frontier California, 1850-1890, Part II: 1867-1880, The Development of Mortgage Law in Frontier California, 1850-1890, Part III: 1880-1890, Community Property Law and the Politics of Married Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century California, Send the Bird and Cage: The Development of Divorce Law in Wyoming, 1868-1900, Acknowledgments