by Stephen J. Leonard
University Press of Colorado, 2022
Cloth: 978-0-87081-680-2 | Paper: 978-1-64642-340-8 | eISBN: 978-1-64642-341-5
Library of Congress Classification HV6465.C6L46 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.134

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this examination of more than 175 lynchings, Stephen J. Leonard illustrates the role economics, migration, race, and gender played in shaping justice and injustice in Colorado. One of the first comprehensive studies of the phenomenon in a Western state, the book has been an essential complement to studies of Southern lynchings, demonstrating that at times the land of purple mountain’s majesty was just as lynching-prone as the land of Dixie. Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919 shows Westerners at their worst and their best as they struggled to define law and order.

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