Title | Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Graybill, A. R. |
Pagination | 1-277 |
Place Published | Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press |
Publication Language | en |
ISBN Number | 9780803260023; 0803260024 |
Keywords | frontier, 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. |
Topics | law enforcement |
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Group | Humanities Bibliography |
Citation Key | 23062 |