Vigilantes and lynch mobs
Subtitle: narratives of community and nation
By: Lisa Arellano
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439908440; 9781439908457; 9781439908464
Subjects: Lynching; Vigilantes
Notes: Originally presented as the author's dissertation at Stanford University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From street brawls to heroism : the official vigilante histories; title: Heroic stories : vigilante ideals and lynching truths; title: John/the victim/the heathen : Hubert Howe Bancroft and the making of western heroism; title: Narrative revisions and the end of the vigilante ideal; title: Conclusion : living in, and with, the past.