| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Book Review

Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California. By Clare V. McKanna, Jr. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2002. xii + 148 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

This is a splendid quantitative and cultural study of homicide in California from 1850 to 1900. It is a sequel to McKanna's previous book, Homicide, Race and Justice in the American West, 1880–1920 (Tucson, 1997). Following the model of its predecessor, this book treats seven representative California counties. In addition to San Diego County, with its large Indian population, there are three paired counties: coastal Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, the gold-mining counties of Calaveras and Tuolumne, and the "Great Valley" counties of Sacramento and Stockton. Within these seven counties, homicide is explored in terms of the Indian, Chinese, Hispanic, and white races. With the pervasive use of handguns shared by all California races, homicide in the seven counties was a overwhelmingly male occurrence in regard to victims as well as killers. His compelling evidence is McKanna's salient contribution, but he salts his always readable text with significant and often poignant stories of fatal events.

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