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The Not So Wild, Wild West
Property Rights on the Frontier
Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill

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Table of Contents for The Not So Wild, Wild West

Table of Contents for The Not So Wild, Wild West

 

 

List of illustrations and tables

Acknowledgements

 

1.      Heroes, Villains, and Real Cowboys

2.      The Institutions That Tamed the West

3.      Property Rights in Indian Country

4.      Might Takes Rights in Indian Country

5.      Soft Gold:  Traders, Trappers, and Hunters

6.      There's Property Rights in Them Thar Hills

7.      Wagon-Train Governments

8.      Cowboys and Contracts

9.      Home on the Range

10. Making the Desert Bloom

11. New Frontiers

 

Notes

Bibliography

Index