Nimrod: Courts, Claims and Killing on the Oregon Frontier

Lansing (law, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon) tracks down the case of Nimrod O'Kelly, who pleaded self-defense in a killing in the Willamette Valley in May 1852, just seven years after law had come to Benton County. He draws on primary and secondary documents, and fills in the gaps with his insights from having written of the Whitman massacre trial of 1850. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR