| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Vigilante Newspapers: A Tale of Sex, Religion, & Murder in the Northwest. By Gerald J. Baldasty. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. viii + 189 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50, paper.)

On 7 May 1906, George Mitchell shot Edmund Creffield in broad daylight on the streets of Seattle. The causes, interpretations, and consequences of this crime are the focus of Gerald Baldasty's study of American journalism at the turn of the century. Baldasty explores the power of newspapers to shape public opinions, the effects of social mores on vigilante violence, and the ways in which the Mitchell case highlighted press power.

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