| Contents |
Introduction : Searching for California's hang trees -- Counting the dead : frontier justice and the antilynching movement -- The greatest good : Capital punishment or popular justice? -- In the shadow of photography : copy prints in the archive -- Signifying bodies : unblushing and monstrous -- The wonder gaze -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : Case list of lynchings and summary executions -- Appendix 2 : Selected list of legal and military executions -- Appendix 3 : Pardons, 1849-59. |
| General note | "A John Hope Franklin Center book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286) and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016. |
| LCCN | 2006010390 |
| ISBN | 9780822337812 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822337942 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822337819 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822337940 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
