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The Bean Creek Valley: Incidents of Its Early Settlement; Collected from the Memories of Its Earliest Settlers, Now Living, and Verified by Reference to Official Documents

By: James J. Hogaboam

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The Bean Creek Valley: Incidents of Its Early Settlement; Collected from the Memories of Its Earliest Settlers, Now Living, and Verified by Reference to Official Documents

By: James J. Hogaboam

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385503655

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Gangland Australia

By: James Morton,Susanna Lobez

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Gangland Australia details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have made up the criminal and gangland scene in Australia for over two centuries. In this fully updated and bestselling book, Britain's top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadcaster Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Australia's talented contract killers, brothel keepers, club owners, robbers, bikers, standover men, conmen and drug dealers, and also examine the role of police, politicians and lawyers who have helped and hindered the growth of criminal empires. Vivid and explosive, Gangland Australia is compulsive reading.

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Victory Books

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052285737X

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9780522857375

Gangland Melbourne

By: James Morton,Susanna Lobez

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Gangland Melbourne

By: James Morton,Susanna Lobez

Gangland Melbourne details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Melbourne from the late 1800s to the present day. In this compelling book, Britain’s top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadcaster Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Melbourne’s standover men, contract killers, robbers, brothel keepers and drug dealers, and also examine the role the police have played in both helping and hindering the growth of these criminal empires. In particular, Melbourne’s criminal past is explored through its famous villainous families, the Painters’ and Dockers’ union war of the 1970s and the more recent underworld gangland killings.Vivid and explosive, Gangland Melbourne is compulsive reading.

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258

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522860389

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9780522860382

Fifty Years on the Old Frontier

As Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman

By: James H. Cook

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Fifty Years on the Old Frontier

As Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman

By: James H. Cook

Of all that has been written of the cowboy and the life of the cattle range, very little has been written by the principal actors themselves. The same is equally true of the famous government scouts, mail riders and other adventurous figures, who were men of deeds rather than words. Not many possessed, like David Crockett and W. F. Cody, the power to dramatize themselves. James H. Cook, the author of Fifty Years on the Old Frontier, first published in 1923, was, however, a genuine cowboy, and he was able to recount in a most readable way his adventures over half a century. During the Seventies and part of the Eighties he rode the ranges in Texas and New Mexico. A vivid account is to be found in the first part of the book of the life of the cattlemen in the Southwest, including such details as rounding up entirely wild cattle and horses, and the conveying of droves of animals hundreds of miles through extremely rough, Indian-infested territory. Those who desire thrills can find them here. The author served as government scout in the campaign against Geronimo in 1885, and later, in the North, saw much of the unfortunate troubles with the Sioux and the Cheyennes, whom he showed to have been shamefully misused by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Much space is given to the Sioux chief, Red Cloud, of whom Cook was a champion and faithful friend. Not the least entertaining parts of the book are the narratives of hunts after big game in the Rockies, during the years when Cook was one of the foremost guides and hunters of the regions bordering the one transcontinental railway. An invaluable addition to any Old West collection!

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329

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789123046

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9781789123043

A Guide to Cherokee Documents in Foreign Archives

By: William L. Anderson,James Allen Lewis

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A Guide to Cherokee Documents in Foreign Archives

By: William L. Anderson,James Allen Lewis

Professors Anderson and Lewis have compiled a guide to documents abroad that focuses on the Cherokee Indians. Exploring the archives of the three major colonial powers in the New World (England, France, and Spain), this guide describes over eight thousand documents that cover the Cherokee past from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

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772

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Scarecrow Press

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081081630X

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9780810816305

Jess Willard

Heavyweight Champion of the World (1915-1919)

By: Arly Allen,James Willard Mace

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Heavyweight Champion of the World (1915-1919)

By: Arly Allen,James Willard Mace

Jess Willard, the "Pottawatomie Giant," won the heavyweight title in 1915 with his defeat of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion. At 6 feet, 6 inches and 240 pounds, Willard was considered unbeatable in his day. He nonetheless lost to Jack Dempsey in 1919 in one of the most brutally one-sided contests in fistic history. Willard later made an initially successful comeback but was defeated by Luis Firpo in 1923 and retired from the ring. He died in 1968, largely forgotten by the boxing public. Featuring photographs from the Willard family archives, this first full-length biography provides a detailed portrait of one of America's boxing greats.

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McFarland

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1476664447

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9781476664446

A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes and other Negotiable Paper

Vol. II

By: James Barr Ames

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A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes and other Negotiable Paper

Vol. II

By: James Barr Ames

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3368862855

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Billy the Kid

El Bandido Simpático

By: James B. Mills

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Billy the Kid

El Bandido Simpático

By: James B. Mills

In the annals of American western history, few people have left behind such lasting and far-reaching fame as Billy the Kid. Some have suggested that his legend began with his death at the end of Pat Garrett’s revolver on the night of July 14, 1881, in Fort Sumner. Others believe that the legend began with his unforgettable jailbreak in Lincoln, New Mexico, several months prior on April 28, 1881. Others still insist his legend began with the publication in 1926 of Walter Noble Burns’s book, The Saga of Billy the Kid. James B. Mills has left no stone unturned in his twenty-year quest to tell the complete story of Billy the Kid. He explores the Kid’s disputable origins, his family’s migration from New York into the Southwest, and how he became an orphan, as well as his involvement in the Lincoln County War, his outlaw exploits, and his dealings with Governor Lew Wallace. Mills illuminates the Kid’s relationships with his enemies, lovers, and numerous friends to contextualize the man’s character beyond his death and legacy. Most importantly, Mills is the first historian to fully detail the Kid’s relations with New Mexicans of Spanish descent. So, the question remains, who really was the person the world knows as Billy the Kid? Was he more than a young reprobate committed to a life of crime, who relished becoming a famous outlaw and cold-blooded, self-absorbed “sociopath” or “thug” that some still prefer him—need him—to be? Or was he in fact, the generally good-hearted, generous, courteous, young vigilante that so many remembered with considerable fondness, who ultimately preferred the company of the more peaceable Hispanic population than his own Anglo people? In this groundbreaking biography, Mills takes the reader closer to the flesh-and-blood human being named Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, than ever before.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574418793

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9781574418798

SHYSTER: A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

PhD thesis

By: James Popple

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SHYSTER: A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

PhD thesis

By: James Popple

Most legal expert systems attempt to implement complex models of legal reasoning. But the utility of a legal expert system lies not in the extent to which it simulates a lawyer’s approach to a legal problem, but in the quality of its predictions and of its arguments. A complex model of legal reasoning is not necessary: a successful legal expert system can be based upon a simplified model of legal reasoning. Some researchers have based their systems upon a jurisprudential approach to the law, yet lawyers are patently able to operate without any jurisprudential insight. A useful legal expert system should be capable of producing advice similar to that which one might get from a lawyer, so it should operate at the same pragmatic level of abstraction as does a lawyer—not at the more philosophical level of jurisprudence. A legal expert system called SHYSTER has been developed to demonstrate that a useful legal expert system can be based upon a pragmatic approach to the law. SHYSTER has a simple representation structure which simplifies the problem of knowledge acquisition. Yet this structure is complex enough for SHYSTER to produce useful advice. SHYSTER is a case-based legal expert system (although it has been designed so that it can be linked with a rule-based system to form a hybrid legal expert system). Its advice is based upon an examination of, and an argument about, the similarities and differences between cases. SHYSTER attempts to model the way in which lawyers argue with cases, but it does not attempt to model the way in which lawyers decide which cases to use in those arguments. Instead, it employs statistical techniques to quantify the similarity between cases. It decides which cases to use in argument, and what prediction it will make, on the basis of that similarity measure. SHYSTER is of a general design: it can provide advice in areas of case law that have been specified by a legal expert using a specification language. Hence, it can operate in different legal domains. Four different, and disparate, areas of law have been specified for SHYSTER, and its operation has been tested in each of those domains. Testing of SHYSTER in these four domains indicates that it is exceptionally good at predicting results, and fairly good at choosing cases with which to construct its arguments. SHYSTER demonstrates the viability of a pragmatic approach to legal expert system design.

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Australian National Univ.

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0731518276

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A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

By: James Popple

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A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

By: James Popple

Most legal expert systems attempt to implement complex models of legal reasoning. This book argues that a complex model is unnecessary. It advocates a simpler, pragmatic approach in which the utility of a legal expert system is evaluated by reference, not to the extent to which it simulates a lawyer's approach to a legal problem, but to the quality of its predictions and of its arguments. The author describes the development of a legal expert system, called SHYSTER, which takes a pragmatic approach to case law. He discusses the testing of SHYSTER in four different and disparate areas of case law, and draws conclusions about the advantages and limitations of this approach to legal expert system development. Chapter 1 presents a critical analysis of previous work of relevance to the development of legal expert systems. Chapter 2 explains the pragmatic approach that was adopted in the development of SHYSTER. The implementation of SHYSTER is detailed using examples in chapter 3. Chapter 4 describes the testing of SHYSTER, and conclusions are drawn from those tests in chapter 5. Examples of SHYSTER's output are provided in appendices.

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Dartmouth (Ashgate)

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1855217392

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9781855217393

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The Bean Creek Valley: Incidents of Its Early Settlement; Collected from the Memories of Its Earliest Settlers, Now Living, and Verified by Reference to Official Documents

The Bean Creek Valley: Incidents of Its Early Settlement; Collected from the Memories of Its Earliest Settlers, Now Living, and Verified by Reference to Official Documents

Gangland Australia

Gangland Australia

Gangland Melbourne

Gangland Melbourne

Fifty Years on the Old Frontier

Fifty Years on the Old Frontier

A Guide to Cherokee Documents in Foreign Archives

A Guide to Cherokee Documents in Foreign Archives

Jess Willard

Jess Willard

A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes and other Negotiable Paper

A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes and other Negotiable Paper

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid

SHYSTER: A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

SHYSTER: A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

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