Contested Empire Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions |
|
| Author:
| Reid, John Phillip |
| Foreword by:
| Ridge, Martin |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8061-3374-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press
|
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $38.00 |
Book Description:
|
Failing to take legal culture into consideration, some previous accounts have depicted these conflicts as mere episodes of lawless frontier violence. Reid expands our understanding of the West by considering the unspoken sense of law that existed, despite the lack of any formalized authorities, in what had otherwise been considered a "lawless" time.
Failing to take legal culture into consideration, some previous accounts have depicted these conflicts as mere episodes of lawless frontier violence. Reid expands our understanding of the West by considering the unspoken sense of law that existed, despite the lack of any formalized authorities, in what had otherwise been considered a "lawless" time.