From guns to gavels
Subtitle: how justice grew up in the outlaw West
By: Bill Neal
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780896726376
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; History; Trials; Crime
Description: "Linked accounts of frontier crimes and trials from 1885 to 1929 across West Texas, Indian and New Mexico Territories, and Montana trace the evolution of criminal justice in the American West"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-347) and index.