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Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)

by | Nov 1, 2008 | Western Books

Robert J. Torrez, University of New Mexico Press, $19.95, Softcover.
Trials by “Judge Lynch” were euphemisms for mob vengeance from colonial America to the frontier West. This scholarly study analyzes the documented cases of hangings in New Mexico from 1852 to 1928. The 51 legal executions and 125 vigilante lynchings took place in a frontier climate of weak law and order, for crimes ranging from murder to assault on tra


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