| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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Book Review

Isaac C. Parker: Federal Justice on the Frontier. By Michael J. Brodhead. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xvii + 219 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliographic essay, index. $34.95.)

From 1875 to 1896, Isaac C. Parker was judge of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas and nearby Indian Territory. During that time, he sentenced more than 160 people to be executed. Of these, 79 were actually put to death. This stunningly large number of death penalties coupled with Parker's outspoken and often angry response to critics earned the so-called "hanging judge" a reputation for dispensing justice in a harsh and arbitrary manner. In Issac C. Parker: Federal Justice on the Frontier, however, Michael J. Brodhead dispels the caricature of a blood-thirsty Parker and presents readers with a trial judge who competently faced extraordinary judicial challenges.

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