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This Item Is a Finding Aid to a Proquest Research Collection in Microform This item is a finding aid to a ProQuest Research Collection in Microform. To learn more visit: www.proquest.com or call (800) 521-0600 This product is no longer affiliated or otherwise associated with any LexisNexis® company. Please contact ProQuest® with any questions or comments related to this product. About ProQuest: ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the world’s knowledge – from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the delivery of complete, trustworthy information. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway ￭ P.O Box 1346 ￭ Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 ￭ USA ￭ Tel: 734.461.4700 ￭ Toll-free 800-521-0600 ￭ www.proquest.com A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Research Collections in American Legal History General Editor: Kermit Hall Letters Received by the Attorney General, 18711884 Western Law and Order A UPA Collection from Cover: Dodge City peace commissioners. Left to right: Charles Bassett, W. H. Harris, Wyatt Earp, Luke Short, L. McLean, Bat Masterson, and Neal Brown. Research Collections in American Legal History General Editor: Kermit Hall LETTERS RECEIVED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, 18711884 WESTERN LAW AND ORDER Editor: Frederick S. Calhoun Associate Editor and Guide Compiled by: Martin Paul Schipper A UPA Collection from 4520 East-West Highway • Bethesda, MD 20814-3389 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Letters received by the Attorney General, 18711884 [microform] : western law and order / editor, Frederick S. Calhoun. microfilm reels : 35 mm.(Research collections in American legal history) Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Martin Paul Schipper, entitled: Guide to the microfilm edition of Letters received by the Attorney General, 18711884. ISBN 1-55655-652-7 1. United States marshalsHistory19th centurySources. 2. Law enforcementWest (U.S.)History19th centurySources. 3. Criminal justice, Administration ofWest (U.S.)History19th centurySources. 4. United States. Attorney-General Correspondence. 5. United States. Department of JusticeHistory19th century Sources. I. Calhoun, Frederick S. II. Schipper, Martin Paul. III. University Publications of America (Firm) IV. Title: Guide to the microfilm edition of Letters received by the Attorney General, 18711884. V. Series. HV8144.M37 363.28'2'0973dc21 2002019990 CIP Copyright © 2003 by Congressional Information Service, Inc. All rights reserved. ISBN 1-55655-652-7. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................................................................... vii Note on Sources ....................................................................................................................... xiii Editorial Note ............................................................................................................................ xiii Reel Index Arizona Territory, Reels 14 January 1871September 1884 ........................................................................................... 1 Arkansas, Reels 12 Eastern District, January 1871October 1883.................................................................... 6 Arkansas, Reel 3 Eastern District, November 1883August 1884 ................................................................. 8 Western District, January 1871May 1874 ........................................................................ 8 Arkansas, Reels 45 Western District, June 1874August 1884 ......................................................................... 8 California, Reels 16 January 1871August 1884 ................................................................................................ 10 Colorado, Reels 12 January 1871August 1884 ................................................................................................ 21 Dakota Territory, Reels 13 January 1871August 1884 ................................................................................................ 23 Idaho Territory, Reels 12 February 1871July 1884 .................................................................................................... 25 Iowa, Reels 12 January 1871August 1884 ................................................................................................ 27 Kansas and Indian Territory, Reels 12 Kansas, January 1871June 1879 ....................................................................................... 29 Kansas and Indian Territory, Reel 3 Kansas, July 1879August 1884 ......................................................................................... 34 Indian Territory, November 1872August 1884 ................................................................. 36 Louisiana, Reels 15 Eastern District, January 1871August 1884 ..................................................................... 36 iii Louisiana, Reel 6 Western District, June 1881July 1884 .............................................................................. 40 Miscellaneous Correspondence, January 1872December 1878 ....................................... 40 Minnesota, Reels 12 February 1871August 1884............................................................................................... 41 Missouri, Reels 13 Eastern Missouri, January 1871August 1884 ................................................................... 43 Missouri, Reels 45 Western Missouri, January 1871August 1884 .................................................................. 46 Montana Territory, Reels 13 January 1871August 1884 ................................................................................................ 49 Nebraska, Reels 12 January 1871September 1884 ........................................................................................... 54 Nevada, Reel 1 January 1871May 1882..................................................................................................... 58 New Mexico Territory, Reels 12 January 1870August 1884 ................................................................................................ 59 Oregon, Reel 1 August 1871August 1884.................................................................................................. 61 Texas, Reels 13 Eastern Texas, January 1871August 1884 ....................................................................... 62 Texas, Reels 46 Western Texas, January 1871February 1884 ................................................................... 64 Texas, Reel 7 Western Texas, March 1884August 1884 ........................................................................ 67 Northern Texas, May 1879August 1884 .......................................................................... 67 Utah Territory, Reels 13 December 1870August 1884 ............................................................................................ 67 Washington Territory and Alaska Territory, Reel 1 Washington Territory, January 1871February 1876 ......................................................... 72 Washington Territory and Alaska Territory, Reel 2 Washington Territory, April 1876August 1884 ................................................................. 74 Alaska Territory, November 1872 ...................................................................................... 75 Wyoming Territory, Reel 1 January 1871December 1876 ........................................................................................... 75 iv Wyoming Territory, Reel 2 February 1877August 1884............................................................................................... 76 Preservation, October 1871July 1884 ............................................................................... 78 Rules and Regulations, U.S. Penitentiary, Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, 1874 ........ 78 Subject Index ............................................................................................................................ 79 v INTRODUCTION The Necessary Results of American Civilization: 18701884 Right here in Galveston, U.S. Attorney D. J. Baldwin wrote Attorney General George H. Williams on February 10, 1872, or at Houston, Austin, San Antonio, or any other of the larger towns in thickly settled districts, life and property are as secure as in New York or elsewhere. That is one of the necessary results of American civilization. But, Baldwin quickly added, it is upon the Rio Grande and Red River frontiers that our people suffer indescribable losses from robberies and murders. Such imbalance between the necessary results of civilization and the wild violence that consumed the shrinking frontier typified the American west during the 1870s and into the 1880s. Baldwins home state hardly stood alone. Every western state, every territory, built up towns every bit as safe as the best eastern cities, but their nether regions remained highly combustible.1 Imposing law and order, what Baldwin called American civilization, on the states and territories west of the Mississippi cost the settlersand the federal lawmen who protected themdearly. They died at the hands of border marauders, renegade American Indians, moonshiners, whiskey peddlers, unreconstructed rebels, brigands, thieves, and outlaws. Lawmen were shot from ambush, by surprise and chicanery. Somelike the Earp brothersengaged in straight gunfights; otherslike James Butler Wild Bill Hickokdied playing poker, while others fell
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