| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3

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Book Review

The Trial of "Indian Joe": Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West. By Clare V. McKanna, Jr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xii + 155 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00; $30.50.)

Nearly everyone loves a murder mystery. Clare McKanna has written one—and it is a good read—based on newspaper accounts and trial transcripts, featuring a double murder on Otay Mesa in San Diego County in 1892. The victims were white, a farmer and his wife, John and Wilhelmina Geyser, and the alleged perpetrator was an American Indian, an intermittently-employed laborer. Jose Gabriel, or "Indian Joe" as he became known after his arrest, was caught at the murder scene by neighbors of the victims, who were found battered and dead outside the kitchen door of their farmhouse.

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