1999 — Territorial Lawmen of Nevada — Volume 1 ~ The Utah Territorial Period 1851-1816 — Robert W. Ellison — Hardbound with Dust Jacket

Territorial Lawmen of Nevada, Vol. 1.  The Utah Territorial Period 1851-1861.

by Robert W. Ellison.

Hot Springs Mountain Press: Minden, Nevada, Nevada Lawman Series. Lithographed and Bound in the United States of America by The Caxton Printers, Ltd. Caldwell, Idaho. 1999. 518 pgaes.  ISBN: 0967401100. Hardcover; good to very good with good dust jacket.

This volume is a look at the first men to ever enforce the laws or directives of courts in the area that later became the 36th state of the Union. It creates the baseline for the unique history of law enforcement in Nevada. Through a study of the earliest records in the archives, libraries, and courthouses of a dozen states, it puts together the first attempt to understand who the men were that made up this special class of westerners. The work is also a look at the times they lived in, the conditions they worked under, and the compensation they received for risking their lives. 

This is the most extensive work published to this date on Nevada’s Territorial period. Here, for the first time, the fragments of history—the yarns, the myths, the news clippings, the journals and the isolated, scattered documents have been assembled in order to piece together the stories of Nevada’s Territorial Lawmen.

Table of Contents:

• Citizen’s Government

• Sheriff William Wallace Byrnes

• Constables and Special Constables

• Carson County, Utah Territory

• U. S. Marshal Joseph Leland Heywood

• Sheriff James C. Fain

• Constable James A. Williams

• Constable Heman Morton Hodgis

• Sheriff Russell Kelley

• Constable Seth Dustin

• Constable Nelson Merkley

• End of an Era

• Vigilantes

• More Vigilantes

• Sheriff Linious B. Abernathie

• Re-Establishing Carson County, U. T. 

• Sheriff Edward C. Morse

• Constable Alexander E. White

• Carson City Justice Courts  of 1859

• And many more (that list was just the first page of three)….