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

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

Ronald Lansing, professor of law, chronicles the dramatic story of Nimrod O’Kelly, a settler-turned-murderer who was the focus of Oregon’s first extensively reported homicide case, in the mid-1850s.

Washington State University Press, 2005. 305 pages. $15.