| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California. By Clare V. McKanna Jr. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2002. xii, 148 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87417-515-1.)
As readers of Mark Twain have always known, California mining camps and cattle towns rivaled, in microcosm, the mayhem committed by "the gangs of New York." Today, historians are empirically redefining the contours of this subject.	1
A student of the intersection of violent crime, the criminal justice system, and race in the American West, Clare V. McKanna Jr. has provided us with a valuable book on nineteenth-century California comparable to the work of Roger Lane on eastern cities. Supplementing criminal indictments with coroners' inquests, court and prison records, and newspaper accounts, McKanna offers a case study of the experience of Indians, Chinese, Hispanics, and non-Hispanic whites with criminal homicide in seven gold camp, Central Valley, and coastal counties. It is significant that his approach documents as homicides seldom-prosecuted police shootings and lynchings (p. 6).	. . .

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