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Breakdown of law enforcement, not absence of laws
c1835-c1862
Rapid population growth overwhelmed law enforcement
Isolated communities scattered across vast areas
Male populations, alcohol, gambling, prostitution
Illegally taking over someone else's mining claim
Isolated in remote mountain locations
Alcohol, gambling, fights over women
Grew from ~1,000 to 25,000 people
By 1851
Approximately 20,000
Working new mining claims
Citizens punishing suspected lawbreakers instead of using official justice system
1851
Informal legal systems miners set up to settle disputes
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