Document Type
Student Paper
Publication Date
11-1981
Recommended Citation
Cannon, Kenneth L. II, "“Mountain Common Law”: Extralegal Punishment of Seducers in Early Utah in Historical Perspective" (1981). Student Research Papers. 323.
https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/student_papers/323
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Comments
Law 690R -- Directed Research - Fall Semester, 1981
Examines the murders in Utah Territory of James Monroe by Howard Egan (1851), of a Mr. Campbell by William Hughes (attempted, 1868), of Richard Brown by John J. Baum (1871), of James Hendry by James & Ezra Hall (1871), and of a Mr. Reeves by Wilford H. Halliday (1874). Also looks at the murder of Parley P. Pratt by Hector McLean (1857, in Arkansas), and of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw (1906, in New York City)