Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Govt, 1st
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Author: Shinn, Charles Howard
Title: Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Scribner's
Date Published: 1885
Description:
Author: Shinn, Charles Howard
Title: Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Scribner's
Date Published: 1885
Description:
xi, 316, [8] pp. 20.5x12.5 cm. (8x5"), original brick cloth. First Edition
"In this very readable book the author has traced closely and ably the evolution of laws and methods of government as devised by those primitive American communities, particularly in California, wherein the demand for protection and justice was imperative and established courts were few and remote" - Cowan. Adams notes that "although the author mentions Murrieta only briefly, he deals at length with the lawlessness of the early California mines." Adams Six-guns 2003; Cowan p.584; Graff 3760; Howes S416; Streeter 2997; Zamorano Eighty 68.
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Ex-library, head and tail of spine frayed, rubbing to extremities; slight tears and mild toning; overall very good.
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