Mormons & cowboys, moonshiners & Klansmen : federal law enforcement in the South & West, 1870-1893 / Stephen Cresswell.

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Cresswell, Stephen Edward

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780817382735
0817382739
0817311866
9780817311865

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Mormons and cowboys, moonshiners and Klansmen

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mormons & cowboys, moonshiners & Klansmen.DDC classification:

363.2/0975/09034 20

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HV8138 .C675 1991eb

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; 1. The Department of Justice and Federal Law Enforcement; 2. Enforcing the Enforcement Acts in Northern Mississippi; 3. One Man, One Wife; 4. Guarding the Treasury in the Southern Highlands; 5. The Anteroom to Statehood; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-312) and index.

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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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