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American Liberty and Justice

Focusing on the American legal system in local, state, or national settings, American Liberty and Justice explores legal culture, criminal justice administration, state constitutional development, and judicial decisions through scholarly works such as deeply researched biographies, state-court histories, and case studies.

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Broke, Not Broken

Broke, Not Broken

Homer Maxey's Texas Bank War

by Broadus Spivey and Jesse Sublett

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9781682830277

Pub Date: December 2022

Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire, and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government...
The Reckoning

The Reckoning

The Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw Frontier

by Peter R. Rose

Foreword by T. R. Fehrenbach

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9781682830260

Pub Date: September 2019

Isolated by geology and passed over by development, the vast, waterless tablelands of the Edwards Plateau of Texas became the stage for one of the great nineteenth-century dramas of Western justice....
Showdown in the Big Quiet

Showdown in the Big Quiet

Land, Myth, and Government in the American West

by John P. Bieter Jr.

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780896729032

Pub Date: March 2015

Owyhee County, Idaho, also known as the “Big Quiet,” is the largest and least inhabited area in the lower forty-eight states. Who has decided how to use it? From violent mine wars in the mid-nineteenth...
Treasure State Justice

Treasure State Justice

Judge George M. Bourquin, Defender of the Rule of Law

by Arnon Gutfeld

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780896728455

Pub Date: February 2014

Few works reveal anything about the role of federal judges in the early twentieth-century American West. Arnon Gutfeld fills that void by analyzing the major issues and dilemmas those judges faced as...
Lone Star Law

Lone Star Law

A Legal History of Texas

by Michael Ariens

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780896729797

Pub Date: October 2016

Michael Ariens proves that no state possesses a richer or more surprising legal history than Texas. In narrative as engaging as it is accessible, he has produced an overarching consideration of Lone...
From Guns to Gavels

From Guns to Gavels

How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West

by Bill Neal

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9780896729827

Pub Date: September 2016

Traces the maturing of the frontier legal system through engaging, colorful anecdotes and case histories – from the days of “Judge Lynch and Judge Winchester” to the era of Judge Blackstone and a modern system of fair courtroom trials.
Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law

Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law

Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style

by Bill Neal

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9780896729810

Pub Date: September 2016

Illicit sex is the catalyst in all the Texas murder trials recounted here. In each account the victim, at least in the perception of the defendant, had committed some sexual misconduct. In every case the defendant opened fire with premeditated intent to kill. And in all the resulting trials, the defense relied at least in part on “unwritten law.” From the 1880s until after World War I, formal penal code seemed insufficiently stringent to southerners demanding redress for sexual misconduct. “Unwritten law” seemed to justify the killing—or at least maiming—of almost anyone who by actual physical contact or inappropriate comment offended southern notions of female virtue, male honor, or sanctity of marriage. In this third book drawn from the legal annals of the American frontier, attorney Bill Neal explores the imaginative machinations of defense lawyers who outmaneuvered prosecutors and judges to extricate their obviously guilty clients. These courtroom triumphs and...
Quite Contrary

Quite Contrary

The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love

by David J. Langum Sr.

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780896728745

Pub Date: May 2014

Mary Bennett Love had a physicality exceeded only by her personality. Six feet tall and over 300 pounds, Love was anything but shackled by the mores of her day. In the 1840s, she moved west from Arkansas...
Skullduggery, Secrets, and Murders

Skullduggery, Secrets, and Murders

The 1894 Wells Fargo Scam That Backfired

by Bill Neal

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780896729179

Pub Date: April 2015

In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed foolproof was hatched...
A Conservative and Compassionate Approach to Immigration Reform

A Conservative and Compassionate Approach to Immigration Reform

Perspectives from a Former US Attorney General

by Alberto R. Gonzales and David N. Strange

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780896728967

Pub Date: November 2014

Although the United States is a nation founded by immigrants, Alberto R. Gonzales and David N. Strange believe that national immigration policy and enforcement over the past thirty years has been inadequate....
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