During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a tradition of vigilantism developed on America’s Western frontier because of the slowness with which authorized law enforcement caught up with new settlements. This situation contrasted with that of Canada, where the forerunners of the arrived in frontier towns to provide order almost as quickly as the towns arose. One reason for this difference was that law enforcement was regarded as almost exclusively a local responsibility in the United... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2022. 3p.