Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver

by McLaren, John; Foster, Hamar; Orloff, Chet

• ISBN13: 9780889770720
• ISBN10: 0889770727
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-06-01
• Publisher: Canadian Plains Research Center

Table of Contents

Preface
Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver: Tracking the Beasts	p. 1
The Layers of Western Legal History	p. 23
Law and Order on the American Frontier: The Western Civil War of Incorporation	p. 74
Law and Order on the Western-Canadian Frontier	p. 90
Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Legal System: The West Coast Anomaly	p. 106
Tee-Hit-Ton and Alaska Native Rights	p. 127
Killing Mr. John: Law and Jurisdiction at Fort Stikine, 1842-1846	p. 147
Controlling the Army of Occupation: Law Enforcement and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942-1946	p. 194
Anti-Chinese Violence in the American West, 1850-1910	p. 212
The Early British Columbia Judges, the Rule of Law and the "Chinese Question": The California and Oregon Connection	p. 237
Water Law of the Canadian West: Influences from the Western States	p. 274
Constitution Making in the Nineteenth-Century American West	p. 292
Contributors	p. 321
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