This innovative reappraisal of federal courts in Indian Territory, by Jeffrey Burton, shows how the United States Congress used judicial reform to suppress the Five Tribes' governments and clear the way for Oklahoma statehood. By extending the judicial authority of the United States into Indian Territory, the federal government undermined the governments of the Five Tribes until abolition of the tribal courts spelled the end of self-rule. Particular attention is paid to the term of Isaac C. Parker, which affords a deeper understanding of the Western District of Arkansas without the...
This innovative reappraisal of federal courts in Indian Territory, by Jeffrey Burton, shows how the United States Congress used judicial reform to sup...
In this volume, Gordon Morris Bakken traces the distinctive development of western legal history. The contributors essays provide succinct descriptions of major cases, legislation, and individual western states constitutional provisions that are unique in the American legal system. To assist the reader, the volume is organized by subject, including natural resources, municipal authority, business regulation, American Indian sovereignty and water rights, women, and Mormons.
Contributors are: Roy H. Andes, Dana Blakemore, Richard Griswold del Castillo, Susan Badger Doyle, James W. Ely,...
In this volume, Gordon Morris Bakken traces the distinctive development of western legal history. The contributors essays provide succinct descript...
Livestock grazing is the most widespread commercial use of federal public lands. The image of a herd grazing on Bureau of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service lands is so traditional that many view this use as central to the history and culture of the West. Yet the grazing program costs far more to administer than it generates in revenues, and grazing affects all other uses of public lands, causing potentially irreversible damage to native wildlife and vegetation.
The Western Range Revisited proposes a landscape-level strategy for conserving native biological diversity on federal...
Livestock grazing is the most widespread commercial use of federal public lands. The image of a herd grazing on Bureau of Land Management or U.S. F...
Presiding from 1875 to 1896 over the United States Court for the Western Judicial District of Arkansas, Isaac Charles Parker attained notoriety as the "Hanging Judge" responsible for law and order in Indian Territory. Popular accounts have portrayed him as a jurist driven relentlessly by a Biblical sense of justice to administer absolute authority over a lawless jurisdiction inhabited by bold outlaws.
"Let No Guilty Man Escape", the first new Parker biography in four decades, corrects this simplistic image by presenting Parker's unique brand of frontier justice within the legal and...
Presiding from 1875 to 1896 over the United States Court for the Western Judicial District of Arkansas, Isaac Charles Parker attained notoriety as the...
Reproduced in this two-volume set are hundreds of treaties and agreements made by Indian nations--with, among others, the Continental Congress; England, Spain, and other foreign countries; the Republic of Texas and the Confederate States; railroad companies seeking rights-of-way across Indian land; and other Indian nations. Many were made with the United States but either remained unratified by Congress or were rejected by the Indians themselves after the Senate amended them. Many others are "agreements" made after U.S. treaty making with Indian tribes officially ended in 1871.
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Reproduced in this two-volume set are hundreds of treaties and agreements made by Indian nations--with, among others, the Continental Congress; Englan...
