Frontier lawyers were peripatetic, moving frequently between boomtowns

Evidence

Some western lawyers were almost as peripatetic as prospectors, who wandered from mining camp to mining camp, looking for gold. Homebodies stayed home in the East, and most lawyers, it seems, were homebodies. The West was the place for rolling stones. Thomas Fitch, once an editor in Milwaukee, a member of the Nevada Constitutional Convention, practiced law in Nevada (1869), Salt Lake City (1871), San Francisco (1875), Prescott, Arizona (1877), Minneapolis (1880), and then Tucson, Arizona (1881). — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3702

Categorization

• XREF: The rolling-stone western lawyer who writes codes wherever he lands echoes the earlier frontier-lawyer material on territorial statute borrowing, connecting to westward institutional transplant. — connects to: Ambitious educated eastern lawyers migrated west seeking fortune — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1833; The western frontier originated lasting legal innovations that later spread east — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 922

Broader Connections

• The western frontier originated lasting legal innovations that later spread east #expands (0.80) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 922