COBLENTZ, Stanton A.

Villains and Vigilantes; The Story of James King of William, and Pioneer Justice in California

New York: Wilson-Erickson Inc., 1936. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's bottle green pebble grain cloth titled in red to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [vii]; 261pp. Light scuffing and wear to the exceptionally durable cloth, light bumping to spine ends, internally clean, in a strong example of the pictorial dustjacket with some minor marginal fraying and creasing to extremities. A very good copy.

A history of the California Vigilance Committees of the 19th century, where some communities dispensed with the authority of the governmental judicial system in favor of independently deciding their own system of punishments and "justice" for those perceived to have broken the law, or committed transgressions against the community.

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