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16 produkter
Lone Star Law
A Legal History of Texas
Inbunden, 2011
483 kr
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Michael Ariens proves that no state possesses a richer or more surprising legal history than Texas. In narrative as engaging as it is accessible, he has produced an overarching consideration of Lone Star law and legal culture—something notably missing in other Texas histories. After taking readers …
Treasure State Justice
Judge George M. Bourquin, Defender of the Rule of Law
Inbunden, 2013
546 kr
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Few works reveal anything about the role of federal judges in the early twentieth-century American West. Arnon Gutfeld fills that void by analyzing the major issues and dilemmas those judges faced as the West moved rapidly from frontier justice to twentieth-century legal realities. George M. …
Treasure State Justice
Judge George M. Bourquin, Defender of the Rule of Law
Häftad, 2014
351 kr
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Few works reveal anything about the role of federal judges in the early twentieth-century American West. Arnon Gutfeld fills that void by analyzing the major issues and dilemmas those judges faced as the West moved rapidly from frontier justice to twentieth-century legal realities. George M. …
Broke, not Broken
Homer Maxey’s Texas Bank War
Av Broadus Spivey, Jesse Sublett
Inbunden, 2014
357 kr
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Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government buildings, hotels, banks, shopping centres and subdivisions.On the afternoon of February 16, 1966, …
Quite Contrary
The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love
Av David Langum
Inbunden, 2014
415 kr
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Mary Bennett Love had a physicality exceeded only by her personality. Six feet tall and over 300 pounds, Love was anything but shackled by the mores of her day. In the 1840s, she moved west from Arkansas via the Oregon Trail. A few years later, she separated from her husband and took her six minor …
Conservative and Compassionate Approach to Immigration Reform
Perspectives from a Former US Attorney General
Av Alberto R. Gonzales, David N. Strange
Inbunden, 2014
391 kr
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Although the United States is a nation founded by immigrants, Alberto Gonzales and David Strange believe that national immigration policy and enforcement over the past thirty years has been inadequate. This failure by federal leaders has resulted in a widespread introduction of state immigration …
Law on the Last Frontier
Texas Ranger Arthur Hill
Av S. E. Spinks
Häftad, 2016
261 kr
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In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes from 1947 to 1974. Whether inspecting brands, deterring smugglers of everything from cattle to candelilla wax, or giving chase on horseback across merciless terrain—often into Mexico—Hill …
Reckoning
The Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw Frontier
Häftad, 2019
225 kr
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In 1873, opportunistic Anglo-Celtic cattlemen and homesteaders, protected by little other than personal firearms and their own bravado, began settling the stream-laced rangelands east of the plateau. An insidious criminal element soon followed: a familybased tribal confederation of frontier outlaws …
Broke, not Broken
Homer Maxey’s Texas Bank War
Av Broadus Spivey, Jesse Sublett
Häftad, 2024
207 kr
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Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire, and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government buildings, hotels, banks, shopping centers, and subdivisions. On the afternoon of February 16, …
Clamor for Equality
Emergence and Exile of Californio Activist Francisco P. Ramírez
Inbunden, 2012
481 kr
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A dramatic response to American racism occurred in Los Angeles during 1855 when eighteen-year-old Francisco P. Ramírez published a Spanish-language newspaper, El Clamor Público. Ramírez called upon a Mexican American majority to seize control of their destiny by electing themselves to public …
Showdown in the Big Quiet
Land, Myth, and Government in the American West
Inbunden, 2015
812 kr
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Owyhee County, Idaho, also known as the “Big Quiet,” is the largest and least inhabited area in the lower forty-eight states. Who has decided how to use it? From violent mine wars in the mid-nineteenth century to environmental conservation disputes at the end of the twentieth, people in the West …
Showdown in the Big Quiet
Land, Myth, and Government in the American West
Häftad, 2015
453 kr
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Owyhee County, Idaho, also known as the “Big Quiet,” is the largest and least inhabited area in the lower forty-eight states. Who has decided how to use it? From violent mine wars in the mid-nineteenth century to environmental conservation disputes at the end of the twentieth, people in the West …
Skullduggery, Secrets, and Murders
The 1894 Wells Fargo Scam That Backfired
Av Neal Bill
Inbunden, 2015
409 kr
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In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed fool proof was hatched up. The plan was for George to present money packets falsely purporting to contain $25,000 in cash …
Lone Star Law
A Legal History of Texas
Häftad, 2016
302 kr
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Michael Ariens proves that no state possesses a richer or more surprising legal history than Texas. In narrative as engaging as it is accessible, he has produced an overarching consideration of Lone Star law and legal culture something notably missing in other Texas histories. After taking readers …
Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law
Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style
Av Bill Neal
Häftad, 2016
215 kr
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From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal codes seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, who believed in direct and personal redress of such wrongs.“Unwritten law” seemed to justify the …
From Guns to Gavels
How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West
Av Bill Neal
Häftad, 2016
208 kr
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When a thirteen-year-old boy strikes out on his own in 1885, leaving his Civil War– ravaged Mississippi homeland for the wild Red River borderland between North Texas and Indian Territory, the American West is a land beyond the reach of the law. Crime thrives in the absence of law officers, …
