Contested Empire: Peter Skene Ogden and The Snake River Expeditions

by John Phillip Reid

Book Overview

Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics?

To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid's Contested Empire explores the implicit notions of law shared by American and British fur traders in the Snake River country of Idaho and surrounding areas in the early nineteenth century. Both the United States and Great Britain had claimed this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806133740
• ISBN13: 9780806133744
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"