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JOHN PHILLIP REID - Law for the Elephant

Title: Law for the Elephant
Description: Huntington Library, 1997. Paperback. Pp: 437. 00 For most of their journey, travelers on the overland trail to California in the 1840s and 1850s were beyond the reach of the law and its enforcers, the police and the courts. Yet, not only did the law play a large role in life on the trail, it was a law hardly distinguishable from the one the emigrants had left behind. John Phillip Reid demonstrates how seriously overlanders regarded the rights of property and personal ownership when they went west as he explores their diaries, letters, and memoirs, giving an unusually rich and vivid picture of life on the overland trail. For most of their journey, travelers on the overland trail to California in the 1840s and 1850s were beyond the reach of the law and its enforcers, the police and the courts. Yet, not only did the law play a large role in life on the trail, it was a law hardly distinguishable from the one the emigrants had left behind. John Phillip Reid demonstrates how seriously overlanders regarded the rights of property and personal ownership when they went west as he explores their diaries, letters, and memoirs, giving an unusually rich and vivid picture of life on the overland trail. ISBN: 9780873281645. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9780873281645

Price: EUR 8.50 = appr. US$ 9.24 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1964207

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