Law in the western United States

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