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



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.

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http://www.amazon.com/Nimrod-Courts-Claims-Killing-Frontier/dp/087422280X