| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Goodbye, Judge Lynch: The End of a Lawless Era in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By John W. Davis. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xiv, 266 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-8061-3670-7.)

In the early morning hours of July 20, 1903, a lynch mob killed three men during an attack on the jail at the Big Horn County courthouse in Basin, Wyoming. The grand jury indicted eight individuals for the murders, but none of them were convicted. Prosecutors found that witnesses were unwilling to testify against the lynchers. Six years later, participants in another act of mob violence known as the Spring Creek raid were not so fortunate. Five of the raiders received prison sentences. This transformation in the ability of the courts to prosecute mob members is the subject of John W. Davis's new book on Wyoming's Big Horn Basin.

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