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Author Luckett, Matthew S., author.

Title Never caught twice : horse stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850-1890 / Matthew S. Luckett.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 341 pages) : illustrations, portraits, maps
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index.
Contents Introduction: Maps Meridians, and Mounts in Western Nebraska -- You Must Watch Your Horses -- Theft Cultures -- The Horse Wars -- A Most Tempting Business -- From Thieves to Villains -- When Horse Thieves Were Hanged -- Epilogue: The Old West in Miniature.
Summary "Never Caught Twice offers a comprehensive cross-cultural study of horse theft as a crime, a transactional activity, and an intercultural phenomenon on the Great Plains of Western Nebraska"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Nebraska.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
Indians of North America.
Great Plains.
History.
Horse stealing -- Nebraska -- History -- 19th century.
Horse stealing.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 149622325X
9781496223258 (electronic book)
9781496205148