Review: 20th Century Lynching in California?  Who knew?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2012
I had been posting on Facebook about a road trip that included heading upstate from San Diego.  Someone asked if I knew about the Lookout Lynching (I think they were trying to spark my curiosity to read this book - of course I hadn't heard of it).  I took the bait.I'm one of those who like history brought to life.  I recently hung out in Old Town doing some work sitting on the porch of a 150 year old home.  It would be no surprise that I enjoy having a bit of history filled in with real people and embellished.  First, I had no idea lynchings were still taking place at the dawn of the 20th century in California!  Yes, the people were arrested and served time - but there was an actual lynching of .... well, it's a short story and I don't want to give anything away.This is part family-lore, and part documented history.  It's the sort of story you might find in a museum, the mix of documentation and humanity, of an event long ago.  Interesting read.  If you like this sort of thing, you will really like this story.  Yes, there really was a mass-lynching in California in the 20th century.  Pretty amazing.