Abstract

The courtroom orators of the early 1800's and the audiences which they addressed were quite different from those involved in modern judicial proceedings, and different rhetorical strategies were required for victory in these early legal dramas. This study provides an examination and explanation of the often colorful rhetoric of the frontier lawyers in Arkansas Territory, 1819–1836

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