Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: In the Beginning
• Chapter 2: The Dundy Years
• Chapter 3: Native Americans and Judge Dundy
• Chapter 4: Railroads and the Ermine of the Bench
• Chapter 5: The Politics of Transition, 1896-1897
• Chapter 6: The “One Munger” Court: 1897-1907
• Chapter 7: The “Cattle Barons” Cases: Land Fraud, Illegal Fencing, and a Six-Hour Jail Sentence
• Chapter 8: The “Two Munger” Court, 1907-1915
• Chapter 9: The Early Munger/Woodrough Years, 1916-1923
• Chapter 10: Prohibition, a Divided Court, and the Dennison Trial, 1919-1933
• Bibliography

About the Author

John R. Wunder is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 (Nebraska, 2008) and Native American Sovereignty. Mark R. Scherer is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He is the author of Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, and Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart and Imperfect Victories: The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945–1995 (Nebraska, 1999).
 
 
 

Reviews

“Echo of Its Time makes an important contribution to the sometimes clouded working of the federal courts. Because much Great Plains legal history has focused on the nineteenth century, this book is especially welcome, delving as it does into the often neglected twentieth century. I have taught Nebraska history for almost twenty years but I still learned a great deal about the state’s federal judges and the types of cases that ended up in federal court.”—Mark R. Ellis, professor of history at the University of Nebraska Kearney and author of Law and Order in Buffalo Bill’s Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867–1910

“Echo of Its Time is an excellent title for a book which shows how the judges of the Federal District Court of Nebraska addressed major issues as the Great Plains frontier jurisdiction evolved into an early twentieth-century rural-urban Midwestern society. . . . Wunder and Scherer have done an excellent job in showing us how our courts, their judges, and other officers are at the heart of the American experience.”—Harl Dalstrom, professor of history emeritus at the University of Nebraska Omaha