rats, correction Re: [ADS-L] mustang court; kangaroo court

[Stephen Goranson]

ads-l archives has 1849 not 1839 for "kangaroo court"

Quoting Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu>:

> ads-l archives has 1839 for "kangaroo court."
>
> Literary World July 20, 1850, p. 46-48 has a long description of a supposed
> "Mustang Court" or "Mestang Court" in Texas also known as a "Kangaroo Court."
> Also a city of Kangaroo and Kangaroo county. It's on Google Books
> full text, so
> I won't copy at length.
>
> Mustang Court goes back in Texas (Republic, Senate) at least to Dec. 29 1839.
> E.g., snippet-wise:
>
> Journals of the Fourth Congress of the Republic of Texas, 1839-1840:
> To ...? -
> Page 162
> by Texas Congress, Texas (Republic). Congress, Harriet Smither, Texas Library
> and Historical Commission, Texas State Library, Texas, Texas (Republic)
> - Texas
> - 1839... 1839 ... Court ? or "Mustang Court," as ...
>
> This text is fully available at UMichigan library Hathi Trust and in
> America's
> Historical Newspapers, Paper: Austin City Gazette;  Date: 03-25-1840;
> Page: 1;
> Location: Austin, Texas
>
> There, col. 2,:
> Mr. Jones, of Brazoria replied....an act creating the celebrated Auditorial
> Court [sic, in this reprint; should be Auditoriat Court? as in general
> auditoriat?]--or "Mustang Court," as it had been very properly called....
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson/DURA-EUROPOS.pdf
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson/Essenes & Others.pdf
>
> A recent newspaper column on "kangaroo court":
> http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090207/NEWS/902070309
>
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