books.google.co.uk - Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His research uncovered 350 instances of lynching that occurred in the state of California between 1850...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Lynching_in_the_West.html?id=Brtdets-U0kC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLynching in the West