Law for the Elephant: Property and Social Behavior on the Overland Trail
Reid has been incredibly imaginative in discovering the sources for law  on the Overland Trail, and his pioneering work is likely to open up an entirely  new field in the study of the American legal experience. This is a splendid and  marvelously readable book.  --Stanley N. Katz, Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty, Princeton University