Deputy U.S. Marshal Lee Sowell and his posse chase bootleggers, killers, and robbers across Indian Territory in the 1880s. Sometimes their methods are a little shady, if not downright illegal, but they get their man. In far western I.T., they avoid massacre by Comanche Indians by fighting fire with fire(water). Two of Lee's posse go out on their own to capture bootleggers and their whiskey still, deep in the Unassigned Lands. Bass Reeves, Lee's mentor, is accused of murder and it is left up to Lee to find and bring in the witnesses that would save Bass from conviction. In the process, Lee is shot and his life saved by a woman with an old Kentucky long rifle. Later, they corner a killer at Robbers' Roost.

Translated from the Hebrew with introduction and brief explanatory notes.

The author spent many years collecting the material which forms the basis for this volume which draws on his preliminary studies & adds much new material. When Finkelstein died in Nov. 1974, he left a draft of a comprehensive work on the subject of the goring ox & related topics. Contents: (Part I): Apperceptions & categorizations; The Mesopotamian & biblical laws of the goring ox: Some categorical considerations; The laws of the goring ox; The Mesopotamian laws & their contexts; The biblical rules; & Reflections; (Part II): The trial of animals: The intellectual background of the inquiry; The classical sources & the ethnographic evidence; Animal trials in medieval Europe; The deodands in early English law; & Animal trials in the U.S.

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