Mormons & cowboys, moonshiners & Klansmen : federal law enforcement in the South & West, 1870-1893 /
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, Cre...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
1991
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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, |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817382735 0817382739 0817311866 9780817311865 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
