| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

Lynching in the West: 1850–1935. By Ken Gonzales-Day. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xii + 299 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95, paper.)

Though based on research in historical sources, Lynching in the West is not truly a history book, and its author is not an historian. An associate professor and chair of the Department of Studio Art at Scripps College, Ken Gonzales-Day joins the ranks of those seeking an artistic response to American crowd violence. Gonzales-Day traveled California looking for lynching sites, especially lynching sites with oak trees. A practicing artist, Gonzales-Day photographed the trees he found, often having no way of knowing whether he was photographing an actual lynching tree or not. He describes this work as "part pilgrimage and part memorial" (p. 16). At each site he tried to remember the name of victims.

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