| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Lynching in the West: 1850–1935. By Ken Gonzales-Day. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xiv, 299 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3781-2. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3794-2.)

Ken Gonzales-Day's deeply researched book highlights the extensive lynching violence that plagued California from the mid-nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth century. Gonzales-Day documents 352 victims of mob killing in the Golden State from 1850 through 1936, with 132 of those victims (38 percent) identified as Mexican or Latin American. As with the recent work of historians such as William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Gonzales-Day's analysis stresses the wide-scale collective violence of Anglos against Hispanics. Like Carrigan and Webb (whose findings he could do more to acknowledge), Gonzales-Day argues that the widespread lynching of Hispanics should lead historians to rethink histories of the West that have tended to ignore the racial dimensions of vigilante violence in favor of a narrative of "frontier justice." Also like Carrigan and Webb, Gonzales-Day urges historians of lynching to broaden interpretations that have tended to focus on the lynching of African Americans in the South.

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