Frontier Terror - Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old West [1 ed.] 9781493067732, 9781493067725

Following the events of January 6, 2021, talk of vigilantes and mob violence have become a part of our daily discourse,

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Frontier Terror - Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old West [1 ed.]
9781493067732, 9781493067725

This visual and textual study of lynchings that took place in California between 1850 and 1935 shows that race-based lyn

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This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West goes beyond the tales everyone knows of the OK Corral an

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The return of a classic, with a new introduction by Candace Savage.Frontier Farewell has been deemed "gracefully wr

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From the Preface:On the frontier, says conventional wisdom, a structured society did not exist and social control was la

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"Elucidating, captivating...Murder at the Mission is narrative history at its very best.” —Hampton Sides, New York

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In Troubled Ground, Claude A. Clegg III revisits a violent episode in his hometown's history that made national hea

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Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sen

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Melanie S. Morrison tells the tragic story of the murder and attempted murder of three young women in 1930s Birmingham,

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