When Justice Came to the Plains
Subtitle: - Judge William Gaslin, Jr. and Frontier Justice in Nebraska 1876-1889
Publisher: Createspace.com
Published: 2014
Place of publication: USA
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Description: Rigorous character study of a Nebraska frontier circuit judge who brought law and order to the western counties. He sentenced many to the state penitentiary in Lincoln and sentenced others to hang. He was a contemporary of Judge Ivan Parker and Judge Roy Bean and was characterized as a "Hanging Judge." His nemesis was Isom Prentice Olive, a Texas cattleman who ordered this men to hang and burn two settlers who got in his way.