Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Search for California’s Hanging Trees 1 1. Counting the Dead: Frontier Justice and the Antilynching Movement 23 2. The Greatest Good: Capital Punishment or Popular Justice? 63 3. In the Shadow of Photography: Copy Prints in the Archive 93 4. Signifying Bodies: Unblushing and Monstrous 133 5. The Wonder Gaze 173 Conclusion 201 Appendix 1. Case List of Lynchings and Summary Executions 205 Appendix 2. Selected List of Legal and Military Executions 229 Appendix 3. Pardons, 1849–59 237 Notes 239 Bibliography 275 Index 297
Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Search for California’s Hanging Trees 1 1. Counting the Dead: Frontier Justice and the Antilynching Movement 23 2. The Greatest Good: Capital Punishment or Popular Justice? 63 3. In the Shadow of Photography: Copy Prints in the Archive 93 4. Signifying Bodies: Unblushing and Monstrous 133 5. The Wonder Gaze 173 Conclusion 201 Appendix 1. Case List of Lynchings and Summary Executions 205 Appendix 2. Selected List of Legal and Military Executions 229 Appendix 3. Pardons, 1849–59 237 Notes 239 Bibliography 275 Index 297
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