Introduction : the layers of Western legal history / John Phillip Reid -- 1. Codification of the law in the West / Andrew P. Morris -- 2. Vigilance movements in early California / John Joseph Stanley -- 3. Open range law in the American West / Roy H. Andes -- 4. Jailing the elephant : the early jails of California / John Joseph Stanley -- 5. Judicial removal in Western states and territories / Andre P. Morriss -- 6. Rough rider justice in the Dakota Badlands / John Joseph Stanley -- 7. Confederate privateers in California / Paul Kens -- 8. Burning Baghdad by the Bay : fire and arson in early California / John Joseph Stanley -- 9. Don't mess around in Texas : adultery and justifiable homicide in the Lone Star State / Paul Kens -- 10. Miranda v Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) / Lonnie Wilson -- 11. The "pueblo water right" in California / Peter L. Reich -- 12. The "pueblo water right" in New Mexico / Peter L. Reich -- 13. The "pueblo water right" in Texas / Peter L. Reich -- 14. The riparian irrigation right in Texas / Peter L. Reich -- 15. Federal reserved water rights : the forest for the trees / Dale D. Goble -- 16. Making the West safe for the Prior Appropriation Doctrine / Dale D. Goble -- 17. Allocation of water resources / James W. Ely, Jr. -- 18. Enlargement of drainage ditches / James W. Ely, Jr. -- 19. Irrigation and eminent domain / James W. Ely, Jr. -- 20. Wyoming Constitution, Article VIII / Andrew P. Morriss -- 21. Water seeking and municipal legitimacy / Neil Greenwood -- 22. The unfulfilled promise of the Winters Doctrine / Emily Rader -- 23. "Without consent" : federal sovereignty over Bear Creek / Keith Pacholl -- 24. For now and always : Indian water rights in the early Twentieth Century / Vaness Gunther -- 25. Indian or citizen? Pueblo water rights defined in New Mexico / Keith Pacholl -- 26. Indian water rights in the West / Vaness Gunther -- 27. The fox guarding the hen house / Vaness Gunther -- 28. Defining the reservation and water rights at Wind River / Keith Pacholl -- 29. "Miners' law" : informal law in Western mining camps / Andrew P. Morriss -- 30. A modern view of the General Mining law of 1872 / Claudia Karin Hess -- 31. Hispanic mineral law in the Southwestern states / Peter L. Reich -- 32. Biddle Boggs v. Merced Mining Company : a contest of economic priorities in mid-Nineteenth-Century California / Donald Louis Stelluto, Jr. -- 33. Moore v. Smaw and Frémont v. Flower : a case of mineral rights and judicial activism / Donald Louis Stelluto, Jr. -- 34. Mining partnerships / James W. Ely, Jr. -- 35. Slouching towards coal land law / Nancy J. Taniguchi -- 36. Indian Country and the law : land tenure, tribal sovereignty, and the States / Imre Sutton -- 37. Tribes, bands, and claims / Thomas C. Mackey -- 38. The Indian giver / Vanessa Gunther -- 39. Indian sovereignty on tribal lands / Vanessa Gunther -- 40. Indian tribal sovereignty and gaming / Vanessa Gunther -- 41. Native American religion and the First Amendment / Vanessa Gunther -- 42. Native American religious freedom / Vaness Gunther -- 43. Crow Dog and the issue of tribal jurisdiction / Michael A. Powell -- 44. Theocracy vs. diversity : local vs. national in territorial Utah / Dale D. Goble -- 45. Mormon disfranchisement in Idaho : religious means to a political end / Michael A. Powell -- 46. "Not fit to enjoy the voting franchise" : Mormon disfranchisement in Nevada / Michael A. Powell -- 47. The reception of Mexican land in the United States / Andrew P. Morriss -- 48. The fate of pueblo rights in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco : Hart v. Burnett and the development of California's Public Trust Doctrine / Donald Louis Stelluto, Jr. -- 49. The Frémont case : confirming Mexican land grants in California / Paul Kens -- 50. The California Mexican land grants / Andrew P. Morriss -- 51. Lazarus v. Phelps and the closing of the Open Range / Roy H. Andes -- 52. Disputed ownership in Sacramento / Paul Kens -- 53. The Homestead Movement and the U.S. Supreme Court / Paul Kens -- 54. Cars and cows : colliding concepts on the Open Range / Roy H. Andes -- 55. Kansas Blue-Sky Law, 1911 : the beginning of modern securities regulation / Timothy L. Miller -- 56. The court strikes back : the hot oil cases / Nicholas George Malavis -- 57. Sword or constitution? Martial law in the oil patch / Nicholas George Malavis -- 58. Due when? / Thomas C. Mackey -- 59. Banking on the court and Congress / Brenda Farrington -- 60. Installment land contracts / Thomas C. Mackey -- 61. No soliciting allowed : Green River ordinances / Shenandoah Grant Lynd -- 62. The stockholder and corporate abuse of power : an illustrative case / Ken Hough -- 63. "Dummies" before the court : stockholders in Western Enterprise / Ion Puschila -- 64. One form of action rule / Thomas C. Mackey -- 65. Trial by jury : law and enquiry in the West / Timothy A. Strand -- 66. Determining the extent of power : Farmers' Loan and Trust Company and the Texas Railroad Commission / Janet Schmelzer -- 67. Taking a different track : a mid-Nineteenth-Century Wyoming Railroad employees' statute portends the future / Susan Badger Doyle -- 68. The struggle for the eight-hour day : Western labor law and the judiciary / Laurie Caroline Pintar -- 69. The struggle to survive : legislation, judicial review, and the Western wageworker / Laurie Caroline Pintar -- 70. Down in the mines : death, negligence, and the struggle for compensation / Laurie Caroline Pintar -- 71. Nevada's tax and national rights / Thomas C. Mackey -- 72. Nevada's tax cases : corporate equal protection and creation of the corporate person / Paul Kens -- 73. Law and the built environment / Neil Greenwood -- 74. Flower power in the ballot box : San Francisco and the Vietnam War / Neil Greenwood -- 75. Divorce Western style / Danelle Moon -- 76. The implications of the Brandeis brief / Dana Blakemore -- 77. Liquor licenses, laundries, and liberty / Paul Kens -- 78. Civil liberties, Chinese laboreres, and corporations / Paul Kens -- 79. American citizenship and Asian immigration / Lucy E. Salyer -- 80. "At the proper time" : the case of People v. de la Guerra / Paul Reed Spitzerri -- 81. The Sleepy Lagoon trial : synonym for in injustice and racial hatred / Susan Sanchez -- 82. Thorns in the roses : race relations and the Brookside plunge controversy in Pasadena, California, 1914-1947 / Howard Shorr -- 83. Unfulfilled promises : the legal and historical issues in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo / Richard Griswold del Castillo -- 84. Removal of ming debris / James W. Ely, Jr. -- 85. California Coastal Commission v. Granite Rock Co., 480 U.S. 572 (1987) : environmental regulation or land-use control? / Louise A. Halper -- Appendix. Table of selected cases.
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