Law in the Western United StatesGordon Morris Bakken University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 - 560 pages 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, Jr., Brenda Gail Farrington, Dale D. Goble, Neil Greenwood, Vanessa Gunther, Louise A Halper, Claudia Hess, Kenneth Hough, Paul Kens, Shenandoah Grant Lynd, Thomas C. Mackey, Nicholas George Malavis, Timothy Miller, Danelle Moon, Andrew P. Morriss, Keith Pacholl, Laurie Caroline Pintar, Michael A. Powell, Ion Puschilla, Emily Rader, Peter L. Reich, John Phillip Reid, Lucy E. Salyer, Susan Sanchez, Janet Schmelzer, Howard Shorr, Paul Reed Spitzzeri, John Joseph Stanley, Donald L. Stelluto, Jr., Timothy A. Strand, Imre Sutton, Nancy J. Taniguchi, and Lonnie Wilson. |
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Contents
The Layers of Western Legal History | 3 |
Part One Law Making | 43 |
Open Range Law in the American West | 72 |
The Early Jails of California | 81 |
Part Two Criminal Law and Justice | 93 |
Confederate Privateers in California | 101 |
Adultery | 114 |
Part Three Water Law | 127 |
Lazarus v Phelps and the Closing of the Open Range | 338 |
The Homestead Movement and the U S Supreme Court | 347 |
Part Eight Law and Business | 357 |
The Hot Oil Cases | 366 |
Sword or Constitution? Martial Law in the Oil Patch | 372 |
Due When? | 378 |
Installment Land Contracts | 388 |
An Illustrative Case | 399 |
The Pueblo Water Right in New Mexico | 137 |
The Forest for the Trees | 146 |
Making the West Safe for the Prior Appropriation Doctrine | 153 |
Allocation of Water Resources | 160 |
Wyoming Constitution Article VIII | 166 |
Water Seeking and Municipal Legitimacy | 172 |
Federal Sovereignty over Bear Creek | 186 |
Indian Water Rights in the West | 195 |
Defining the Reservation and Water Rights at Wind River | 201 |
Informal Law in Western Mining Camps | 209 |
A Contest | 223 |
Mining Partnerships | 235 |
Part Five Law for American Indians | 249 |
Tribes Bands and Claims | 267 |
Indian Sovereignty on Tribal Lands | 273 |
Native American Religious Freedom | 281 |
Part Six Mormons and the Law | 291 |
The Reception of Mexican Land Law in the United States | 313 |
Confirming Mexican Land Grants in California | 326 |
Stockholders in Western Enterprise | 408 |
Law and Equity in the West | 415 |
Farmers Loan | 423 |
A MidNineteenthCentury | 429 |
Legislation Judicial Review | 442 |
Part Ten Taxation | 449 |
Part Eleven Municipal Corporation Law | 459 |
San Francisco and the Vietnam | 466 |
Part Twelve Race and Gender | 473 |
The Implications of the Brandeis Brief | 487 |
Liquor Licenses Laundries and Liberty | 496 |
American Citizenship and Asian Immigration | 503 |
Synonym for Injustice and Racial Hatred | 515 |
Race Relations and the Brookside Plunge | 522 |
The Legal and Historical Issues | 529 |
Part Thirteen Environmental Law | 539 |
California Coastal Commission v Granite Rock Co | 545 |
Appendix Table of Selected Cases | 551 |