Law and order was always a certainty if Sheridan County, Nebraska. As long as Deputy Sheriff Vern Wood was toting his blacksnake whip, folks were more than willing to keep peaceful. That changed the day that cattleman Aaron Duffy discovered Wood's body on a muddy road outside of town. Thirsty for revenge, certain citizens were ready to string up a young Irishman whose back bore the unmistakable marking of the deputy's brand of justice. Indeed Mike Lochran would have swung from the end of a rope had one man not believed him innocent. The only man in Sheridan County who was willing to pin on a tin star and stand up to a lynch mob...and the powerful people controlling it. That man was Aaron Duffy.
Jefferson Hewitt, private detective, leads to safety the family of a rich land-owner from strife-torn Mexico. It is just another case until the brutal murder of a young friend forces him to ride the vengeance trail.
On the trail of a villainous stock swindler, Jefferson Hewitt poses as a brakeman, hijacks a train, speeds across international borders, and uncovers an intriguing line-up of suspects: the cheating stockbroker's desperate ex-partner, an English lord whose financial dealings hint of larceny, a Scottish-Canadian land baron and his beautiful mulatto daughter, and an earnest Northwest Mounted Policeman on his first case.
Several prime suspects for two of the cases which Jefferson Hewitt, detective extraordinary, is working on turn up in the same Kansas town--a town practically owned by two of the suspects.
Having worked his way up from cowhand to sheriff, Rodgerson Downey decides that capturing a notorious outlaw would be just the thing to insure his election as lieutenant governor. In the process, he hopes to rid himself of a handsome young boarder, a rival for his wife's affections, whom he suspects of being the outlaw he is after.
Ex-Pinkerton agent Jefferson Hewitt responds to a call for help from the Deputy Marshall in Kaylee's Ford, South Dakota, where the tensions between cattlemen and quarry workers have reached a boiling point and an alleged murderer is threatened with lynching.
When private investigator Jeff Hewitt goes to School Hill, Nebraska to clear a young German immigrant of a murder charge, he uncovers a connection between a banker's financial troubles and an outlaw gang that has been terrorizing the territory.
What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy. The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, John Majewski's analysis finds that secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led modernization. They blamed the South's lack of development on Union policies of discriminatory taxes on southern commerce and unfair subsidies for northern industry. Majewski argues that Confederates' opposition to a strong central government was politically tied to their struggle against northern legislative dominance. Once the Confederacy was formed, those who had advocated states' rights in the national legislature in order to defend against northern political dominance quickly came to support centralized power and a strong executive for war making and nation building.
In The Virginia State Constitution, John Dinan analyzes the history and development of the Virginia constitution and undertakes a detailed treatment of the evolving interpretation of each section. In it, he contends that few states have had more opportunities than Virginia to engage in constitutional revision, and, in the process, to debate fundamental political questions about the role of state government.
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