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This volume presents recent thinking on the role of law in the American West. Western Legal History is a subject of recent scholarly focus. Previous generations of scholars concerned with the frontier process seldom considered law as a subject for inquiry. In the past quarter century, the scholars republished here have created a field of specializationand brought the issue of law into the general field. The essays demonstrate how legal history can amplify our understanding of the meaning of race, class and gender in the West.