Lynchings in Kansas, 1850s-1932 / Harriet C. Frazier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frazier, Harriet C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lynching--Kansas--History.

Lynching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society cataloger, published a ""History of Lynching in Kansas."" The present book is a development of that work, researched with the benefit of modern technology. The author locates 58 lynchings Yost missed and removes 19 from her list that for various reasons are not lynchings in Kansas. Yost apparently catalogued her 123 entries, some containing up to six names, based on her newspaper sources' headlines, not the actual stories on the lynchings. Her catalog places some events in counties that did not exist at the time of the lynching. In this

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Territorial Times, 1850s-1860; 2. Civil War Years, 1861-1865; 3. High Water Mark of Mob Murders, 1866-1870; 4. Mob Murders Down: Victims Likely Include Sons of a Former Illinois Governor, 1871-1875; 5. Horse Thief Lynchings Continue, and 5,000 Witness Cruel Death of Black Rapist, 1876-1880; 6. Railroads End Lynching of Horse Thieves, 1881-1885; 7. Mob Murders Decline; Three Blacks and Nine Whites, 1886-1889; 8. Seven Blacks and Nine Whites, 1890-1899; 9. Three Blacks and Three Whites, 1900-1923

Epilogue: A Tale of Eight Counties and One White, 1932Appendix 1: Statistical Summary of Kansas Lynchings, 1850s-1932; Appendix 2: Falsely Reported, Border or Slavery Warfare, Doubtful, and Foiled Lynchings, 1855-1922; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1779-1