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TitlePolicing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsGraybill, A. R.
Pagination1-277
Place PublishedLincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Languageen
ISBN Number9780803260023; 0803260024
Keywordsfrontier, North-west Mounted Police
Abstract

In the late nineteenth century, the Texas Rangers and Canada's North-West Mounted Police were formed to bring the resource-rich hinterlands at either end of the Great Plains under governmental control. This book presents a comparative history of these two most famous constabularies in the world.

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law enforcement

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76183601

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Humanities Bibliography

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