Title:
Necktie parties : a history of legal executions in Oregon, 1851-1905
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ISBN:
9780870044465
Publication Information:
Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 316 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents:
Section One Open to the public, 1851-1866 ; Territory of Oregon v. William Kendall, 1851 ; Territory of Oregon v. Creed Turner, 1851 ; Territory of Oregon v. Return William Everman, 1852 Territory of Oregon v. Adam Wimple, 1852 Territory of Oregon v. Indian George & Indian Tom, 1854 ; Territory of Oregon v. Charles John Roe, 1859 ; Territory of Oregon v. Danforth Balch, 1859 ; State of Oregon v. Matthews Moss, 1860 ; State of Oregon v. William Casterlin, 1860 ; State of Oregon v. Phillip George, 1860 ; State of Oregon v. Andrew J. Pate, 1862 ; State of Oregon v. Henry Deadmond, 1865 ; State of Oregon v. George Beale and George Baker, 1865 ; State of Oregon v. William Kane, 1865 ; State of Oregon v. Thomas Smith, 1866 ; State of Oregon v. William Kay Neil, 1877 ; State of Oregon v. Sevier Lewis, 1878 ; State of Oregon v. James Cook, 1879.
Section Two Modern inventions 1878-1894 ; State of Oregon v. Archie Brown and Jame Johnson, 1879-84 ; United States v. Kot-Ko-Wot, 1879 ; State of Oregon v. Ah Lee 1880 State of Oregon v. Arthur (Pat Edward) Murphy, 1881 State of Oregon v. Alfred Anderson, 1883 State of Oregon v. John W. Murray, 1885 State of Oregon v. Joe Drake, 1884 State of Oregon v. Lewis O'Neil, 1886 State of Oregon v. Richard Marple, 1887 State of Oregon v. William Landreth, 1888 State of Oregon v. Chee Gong, 1888 State of Oregon v. John F. Gilman, 1889 State of Oregon v. John Reiter, 1893 State of Oregon v. John Hansen, 1894 State of Oregon v. Loyal (Lloyd) Montgomery, 1896 State of Oregon v. Lemuel Melson, 1897 State of Oregon v. Kelsey Porter, 1897.
Section Three Sensational journalism, 1896-1905 ; State of Oregon v. Charles Fiester, 1898 ; State of Oregon v. Claude Branton, 1899 ; State of Oregon v. William Magers, 1900 State of Oregon v. Coalman Gillespie, 1900 State of Oregon v. John Wade and B.H. Dalton, 1902 State of Oregon v. August Schieve, 1902 State of Oregon v. A.L. Belding, 1903 State of Oregon v. Edward Elliot Lyons, 1903 State of Oregon v. George Smith, 1903 ; State of Oregon v. Pleasant Armstrong, 1904 ; State of Oregon v. Daniel Norman Williams, 1905.
Abstract:
Diane Goeres-Gardner makes readers eyewitnesses to frontier justice in Necktie Parties. This is the story of the men who climbed the gallows steps and faced the hangman's noose during the early years of settlement in Oregon. Today, capital punishment is a controversial topic, in the United States and around the world. That wasn?t the case during the 1800s on America's western frontier. Executions were public events drawing hundreds?sometimes thousands?of residents from miles around. The.
Record of Oregon's hangings during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a history of ordinary people who committed extraordinary acts. Goeres-Gardner also looks at the backgrounds of the condemned and their victims, the crimes and the investigations. The author uses trial records, witness testimony, newspaper reports and other historical records to bring to life each of the more than fifty cases included in Necktie Parties.
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