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Book Review
| White Justice in Arizona: Apache Murder Trials in the Nineteenth Century. By Clare V. McKanna, Jr. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2005. xiii + 223 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)
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Clara V. McKanna, Jr. provides readers with very clear case studies of the investigations and prosecutions of Captain Jack, Gonshayee, Apache Kid, Nahdeizaz, and Batdish and three other Apache defendants in Arizona. McKanna's conclusion and the premise for this entire work is that for Apaches in Arizona Territory it was nearly impossible to get a fair trial. McKanna comes to this conclusion by looking at the individual court transcripts, newspapers, public records, maps, investigative reports, government records about on-going feuds between Apache groups forced to live in close proximity to one another, and photos that are well used throughout the book. |
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