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Never Caught Twice
- Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850–1890
Af: Matthew S. Luckett
Engelsk Paperback
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Never Caught Twice
- Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850–1890
Af: Matthew S. Luckett
Engelsk Paperback
Paperback
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2021 Nebraska Book AwardNever Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four Plains groups-American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and cowboys, and farmers-Matthew S. Luckett clarifies a widely misunderstood crime in Western mythology and shows that horse stealing transformed plains culture and settlement in fundamental and surprising ways. From Lakota and Cheyenne horse raids to rustling gangs in the Sandhills, horse theft was widespread and devastating across the region. The horse’s critical importance in both Native and white societies meant that horse stealing destabilized communities and jeopardized the peace throughout the plains, instigating massacres and murders and causing people to act furiously in defense of their most expensive, most important, and most beloved property. But as it became increasingly clear that no one legal or military institution could fully control it, would-be victims desperately sought a solution that would spare their farms and families from the calamitous loss of a horse. For some, that solution was violence. Never Caught Twice shows how the story of horse stealing across western Nebraska and the Great Plains was in many ways the story of the old West itself.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781496233400
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1496233409
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Udg. Dato:
1 dec 2022
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
University of Nebraska Press
Oplagsdato:
1 dec 2022
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