Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier

Readers living in the Pacific Northwest sometimes lament the lack of attention paid to the history of their neck of the woods by writers of Western Americana. The latter seems to be hypnotized by Texas ranches, Kansas cowtowns and Southwestern mining camps. Not to mention Plains Indian villages and U.S. Cavalry barracks. They seem uninterested in farming and lumbering, fishing and shipping, and the urban history of Portland and Seattle. But here is a good example of the True Crime genre with