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BL
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1012443
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b766813
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Cresswell, Stephen Edward.
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| Title & Author
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Mormons cowboys, moonshiners Klansmen : : federal law enforcement in the South West, 1870-1893 /\ Stephen Cresswell.
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| Publication Statement
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Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press,, ©1991.
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1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) :: illustrations, portraits
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| ISBN
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0817311866
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: 0817382739
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: 9780817311865
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: 9780817382735
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0817305300
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9780817305307
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9780817311865
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-312) and index.
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments; 1. The Department of Justice and Federal Law Enforcement; 2. Enforcing the Enforcement Acts in Northern Mississippi; 3. One Man, One Wife; 4. Guarding the Treasury in the Southern Highlands; 5. The Anteroom to Statehood; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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In the decades immediately following the Civil War, the United States expanded rapidly. As the nation grew, so too did federal law, moving into areas of citizens' lives previously regulated by local custom and state and territorial statutes.In Mormons and Cowboys, Moonshiners and Klansmen, Cresswell uses then moves beyond a case-study approach to illuminate larger questions including the evolution of the American criminal justice system, the relationship of the South and the West to the rest of the nation, the workings of the 19th-century American bureaucracy, and conflict of the local, state,
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United States.-- History-- 19th century.
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United States.
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Law enforcement-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
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Law enforcement-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Law enforcement-- West (U.S.)-- History-- 19th century.
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Criminology, Penology Juvenile Delinquency.
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Law enforcement.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom Security-- Law Enforcement.
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Social Sciences.
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Social Welfare Social Work.
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Strafverfolgung
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Geschichte (1870-1893)
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Southern States.
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United States.
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USA, Südstaaten
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USA, Weststaaten
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West United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.2/0975/09034
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| LC Classification
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HV8138.C675 1991eb
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| Parallel Title
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Mormons and cowboys, moonshiners and Klansmen
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