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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an
official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense
of law and ethics?
To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid's Contested Empire
explores the implicit notions of law shared by American and British
fur traders in the Snake River country of Idaho and surrounding
areas in the early nineteenth century. Both the United States and
Great Britain had claimed this region, and passions were intense.
Focusing mainly on Canadian explorer and trader Peter Skene Ogden,
Reid finds that both side largely avoided violence and other
difficulties because they held the same definitions of property,
contract, conversion, and possession.
In 1824, the Hudson's Bay Company directed Ogden to decimate the
furbearing animal population of the Snake River country, thus
marking the region a "fur desert." With this mandate, Great Britain
hoped to neutralize any interest American furtrappers could have in
the area. Such a mandate set British and American fur men on a
collision course, but Ogden and his American counterparts
implicitly followed a kind of law and procedure and observed a
mutual sense of property and rights even as the two sides vied for
control of the fur trade.
Failing to take legal culture into consideration, some previous
accounts have depicted these conflicts as mere episodes of lawless
frontier violence. Reid expands our understanding of the West by
considering the unspoken sense of law that existed, despite the
lack of any formalized authorities, in what had otherwise been
considered a "lawless" time.
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