Law and the Great Plains: Essays on the Legal History of the..

1996. Wunder, John R. Law and the Great Plains: Essays on the Legal History of the Heartland. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. x, 194 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Near fine. Internally clean and bright. $85. * Contents: Toward a legal history of the Great Plains / John R. Wunder; The legal culture of the Great Plains / Kermit L. Hall; German victims and American oppressors: the cultural background and legacy of Meyer v. Nebraska / Paul Finkelman; A Kansan looks at Brown / Michael S. Mayer; The railroad question revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway v. Minnesota and constitutional limits on state regulations / James W. Ely, Jr.; Practicing what you preach against? Karl Llewellyn, legal realism, and The Cheyenne Way / Scott Landers; William Jennings Bryan, attorney before the Nebraska Supreme Court / Andrew B. Koszewski; Observations on one hundred years of federal judging in Western Missouri District Court / Lawrence H. Larsen; Tribal courts: constitutional decision making and an opportunity for transformation / Frank Pommersheim.