Frontier Terror
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Frontier Terror

Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old West

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Frontier Terror

Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old West

About this book

Following the events of January 6, 2021, talk of vigilantes and mob violence have become a part of our daily discourse, reminding us that we haven't come as far as we thought from the "wild" days of the Old West. The nineteenth century was a time of opportunity in the West, but it was also fraught with lawlessness, racism, and extreme violence as territories became states, freemen and immigrants settled alongside white homesteaders, and the first unions changed the way we work. Author Michael Rutter examines the growing pains of the American West through the lens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century vigilantes, outlaws, mob violence, and lynchings, proving that oftentimes our country's democratic progress comes at the cost of physical violence.

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Information

Publisher
TwoDot
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781493067732
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter 1. East Texas Regulator-Moderator War: The Bloodiest Range Feud in Texas History
  3. Chapter 2. Joseph Smith: An American Prophet Murdered by an American Mob
  4. Chapter 3. John Glanton, Scalp Hunter: The Glanton Gang Terrorizes Northern Mexico
  5. Chapter 4. San Francisco Sex Trafficking Is Another Gold Rush
  6. Chapter 5. The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Arkansas Wagon Train Murdered by Mormon Militia
  7. Chapter 6. The Montana Vigilantes: Montana Gold Miners Take the Law into Their Hands
  8. Chapter 7. A Wicked Town at Trail’s End: The Mythic versus Real Dodge City, Kansas
  9. Chapter 8. The Texas Tin Hat Brigade: Maybe the Bloodiest Vigilante Group in the West
  10. Chapter 9. Los Angeles Vigilantes Massacre Chinese: Nineteen Men Hanged in Racial Attack
  11. Chapter 10. Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War: The Regulators Fight “the House” in a Range War Nobody Won
  12. Chapter 11. Ellen “Cattle Kate” Watson: Hung by Wyoming Ranchers Who Wanted Her Land
  13. Chapter 12. Teddy Roosevelt: “That Damned Cowboy” Was a Bully Buster President
  14. Chapter 13. Elizabeth Potts: Murderess Dismembers Her Victim and Is the First Woman Hung in Nevada
  15. Chapter 14. The Johnson County War: Wyoming Cattle Barons Hire Texas Gunmen to Kill Homesteaders
  16. Chapter 15. Three Dakota Indians Lynched: An Irate Mob Avenges the Spicer Family
  17. Chapter 16. Brown’s Park: Range War for a Mountain Valley on the Utah-Colorado Border
  18. Chapter 17. Tom Horn: “Killing Men Is My Specialty....It’s a Business Proposition.”
  19. Chapter 18. Jesse Washington: Convicted of Murder and Lynched in the Town Square
  20. Chapter 19. Texas Rangers: Sometimes an Instrument of Ethnic Cleansing
  21. Bibliography
  22. About the Author