Servants of the Law : Judicial Politics on the California Frontier, 1849-89 9780761848929, 9780761848912

Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created

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Servants of the Law : Judicial Politics on the California Frontier, 1849-89
9780761848929, 9780761848912

During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when vast numbers of whites poured into California, the native Indi

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