AMERICAN FRONTIER LIBERTY
Customary Law and Freedom From Government
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Book one of a three book series on American liberty.
Customary law did more to keep peace on The American Frontier than the Colt 45 revolver and the Winchester repeating rifle.
This book describes life on the American Frontier and the most basic form of liberty – freedom from government. It involves a homestead community in which there were no government enforcement officers or officials, spanning a time from 1880 to the mid 1960’s.
If you want to live peacefully without government interference in your life you must live by some kind of moral code. On the American frontier there were two important codes – customary law, made up of customs and traditions, and the Biblical laws of peace. It happened that the community that I grew up in was a secular homestead community, and this book focusses on customary law as it was applied in that community.
Customary law permeates our American legal system but since there is no money involved in its workings, it is of little interest to law schools, or the judicial system as they operate today.
If you as an average citizen are interested in this law which is all about liberty at its best, you must prepare to live so that you do not need much government and do not wish to use lawyers. You must set a high moral standard and govern first your own self, then govern in your family and finally in your community.
This book describes how it works, but I must warn you, true liberty ain’t for sissies.
The Setting
The stories and examples in this book all took place in a very remote and isolated area of northeast California and northwest Nevada known as the Madeline Plains. More precisely, it involves the south end of the Madeline Plains surrounding the town of Ravendale.
There are three towns on the “Plains”. If you want to look at this area on Google Maps, search Ravendale Airport and you will see what I call my hometown even though I never lived in the town. If you follow the road east from Ravendale about 4 miles, the main road turns left, and another road goes straight ahead as Garate Road. That is where my grandfather took out his first homestead.
If you follow the main highway north out of Ravendale you come to the town of Termo, and then at the north end of the Plains is the town of Madeline. In my day the population of Ravendale averaged around 20 people. Madeline had considerably more people, and Termo averaged one-and-one-half people. If you want to know how a town can have a one-and-one-half population, you’ll have to get the book.
These towns still exist today, but the homestead community of customary law no longer exists I am sad to say.