Law in the Western United States
Law in the Western United States

Author: Gordon Morris Bakken

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9780806132150

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In this volume, Gordon Morris Bakken traces the distinctive development of western legal history. The contributors' essays provide succinct descriptions of major cases, legislation, and individual western states' constitutional provisions that are unique in the American legal system. To assist the reader, the volume is organized by subject, including natural resources, municipal authority, business regulation, American Indian sovereignty and water rights, women, and Mormons. Contributors are: Roy H. Andes, Dana Blakemore, Richard Griswold del Castillo, Susan Badger Doyle, James W. Ely, Jr., Brenda Gail Farrington, Dale D. Goble, Neil Greenwood, Vanessa Gunther, Louise A Halper, Claudia Hess, Kenneth Hough, Paul Kens, Shenandoah Grant Lynd, Thomas C. Mackey, Nicholas George Malavis, Timothy Miller, Danelle Moon, Andrew P. Morriss, Keith Pacholl, Laurie Caroline Pintar, Michael A. Powell, Ion Puschilla, Emily Rader, Peter L. Reich, John Phillip Reid, Lucy E. Salyer, Susan Sanchez, Janet Schmelzer, Howard Shorr, Paul Reed Spitzzeri, John Joseph Stanley, Donald L. Stelluto, Jr., Timothy A. Strand, Imre Sutton, Nancy J. Taniguchi, and Lonnie Wilson.

Legal Title to Mining Claims and Water Rights in California
Legal Title to Mining Claims and Water Rights in California

Author: Gregory Yale

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9781720564775

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Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a work on American Mining Law in this important re-issue of Yale's famous "Legal Title to Mining Claims and Water Rights in California." Unavailable since 1867, this publication offers rare insights into the 1866 Mining Act, the forerunner of the 1872 Mining Act. In addition to being considered one of the great masterpieces on the subject of the United States Mining Law, "Legal Title to Mining Claims and Water Rights in California" is a unique work in that was it was written only a year after the first federal law devoted to mining. A one-of-kind book with nearly 500 pages of information on United States Mining Law. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As such, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

Land in California
Land in California

Author: W. W. Robinson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0520038754

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The story of California can be told in terms of its land. Better still, it can be told in terms of men and women claiming the land. These men and women form a procession that begins in prehistory and comes down to the present moment. Heading the procession are Indians, stemming out of a mysterious past, speaking a babel of tongues, and laying claims to certain hunting, fishing, and acorn-gathering areas-possessory claims doomed to fade quickly before conquering white races. Following the brown-skinned Indians are Spanish speaking soldiers, settlers, and missionaries who, in 1769, began coming up through Lower California and taking over the fertile coast valleys and the harbors of California. Their laws were the Laws of the Indies controlling Spanish colonization and governing ownership of land. Missions, presidios, pueblos, and ranchos were born in the period of these people.

A Golden State
A Golden State

Author: Marlene Smith-Baranzini

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780520217706

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A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.