Not So Wild, Wild West Property Rights on the Frontier

Name: Not So Wild, Wild West Property Rights on the Frontier
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ISBN: 9780804748544

ISBN-10: 0804748543

ISBN-13: 9780804748544

Edition: 2004

Authors: Terry L. Anderson, Peter Jensen Hill

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Mention of the American West usually evokes images of cowboys, ranchers and outlaws. Here the authors argue that everyday people helped carve out legal institutions that tamed the West, applying the lessons learned to modern 'frontiers' - the environment, developing countries and space exploration.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/4/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




Heroes, villains, and real cowboys



The institutions that tamed the west



Property rights in Indian country



Might takes rights in Indian country



Soft gold : traders, trappers, and hunters



There's property rights in them thar hills



Wagon-train governments



Cowboys and contracts



Home on the range



Making the desert bloom



New frontiers