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Jan 22, 2014 · This article examines the process of crime and punishment on the American frontier beginning with the transplantation of English common law in the seventeenth century and covering the evolution of criminal justice practices as pioneers pushed American boundaries further west over the next 200 years. What becomes clear is that a variety of ...
- M. George Eichenberg
- 2014
The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner's Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.
Oct 8, 2023 · Several strategies were employed to maintain order and dispense justice in the lawless frontier towns of the American West. In these towns, where law enforcement was often non-existent or inadequate, the residents had to rely on their own systems of governance to ensure order and justice prevailed.
- Glenda Watson
Abstract This article examines the process of crime and punishment on the American frontier beginning with the transplantation of English common law in the seventeenth century and covering the evol...
Two eminent historians, Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, present the American West as both frontier and region, real and imagined, old and new, and they show how men and women of all ethnic groups were affected when different cultures met and clashed.
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
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Dec 15, 2018 · The program explored the cultures and values of the numerous tribes that had inhabited the region some 10,000 years before the arrival of Europeans—busting the myth of an empty landscape—as well as their struggle to survive during the American westward expansion.
