Desert Lawmen
by Ball, Larry D.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary
Elected for two-year terms, frontier sheriffs were the principal peace-keepers in counties that were often larger than New England states. As officers of the court, they defended settlers and protected their property from the ever-present violence on the frontier. Their duties ranged from tracking down stagecoach robbers and serving court warrants to locking up drunks and quelling domestic disputes.The reality of their job embraced such mandane duties as being jail keepers, tax collectors, quarantine inspectors, court-appointed executioners, and dogcatchers.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| The Origins of the Sheriff's Office in New Mexico and Arizona Territories | p. 1 |
| Organization of the Sheriff's Office | p. 19 |
| The Sheriff and the Law Enforcement System | p. 38 |
| Getting in Office Seeking preferment to the Shrievalty | p. 55 |
| Servant of the Court | p. 89 |
| The Sheriff and Extralegal Justice | p. 128 |
| Deathwatch | p. 147 |
| Conservator pacis | p. 179 |
| Fugitives from Justice | p. 202 |
| Sheriffs in Times of Crisis | p. 225 |
| Ex-Officio Collector | p. 246 |
| Handyman | p. 265 |
| The Shrievalty Enters the Twentieth Century | p. 279 |
| Conclusion | p. 301 |
| Notes | p. 309 |
| List of Sheriffs | p. 345 |
| Legal Hangings | p. 373 |
| Lynchings | p. 378 |
| Bibliography | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 399 |
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