California justice : shootouts, lynchings and assassinations in the Golden State

The Sacramento Squatter's Massacre -- He Said, She Said, They Said : She Was Hanged! -- The Greatest Shootout In The West -- Auburn's Darkest Night -- A Serial Lyncher Is Lynched -- The Lynching Of An Uninvited Wedding Guest -- A Cold Welcome To Santa Cruz -- False Friends In Germantown -- The Lynching Of Indian Charlie -- The Odd Fellows Serve Rough Justice On A Southerner -- A Hard Road Into Bakersfield -- The Citizens Of Little Lake Strike Back -- The Biggest Coward In Butte County -- Violated Trust, Trussed Up -- Twistin' In The Wind In Redding -- Rage Against The Railroad -- Unhappy Days At Happy Camp -- Too Many Guests At The Jailhouse -- The Bandit With Soft Hands And A Hard Heart -- Pioneer Terrorists Meet The Crazed Lynch Mob -- Bad-ass Jim Mckinney Meets A Bad-ass Shotgun -- Prohibition Mobsters Hang Around In Santa Rosa -- A Dosage Of Lead Is Administered On J Street -- The Governor's Mob Of Good Citizens -- The Last Of The California Cowboys -- A Bad Day At The Pool Hall -- The (not So) Brite Brothers -- What Goes Around, Comes Around : A Whacker Is Whacked -- The Last Lynching In California -- Shootout At The Supper Club -- Sirhan Sirhan And The Whispering Woman In The Polka Dot Dress -- The Golden Dragon Massacre -- Warfare At City Hall -- Psychopaths Carry Out Some Bank Business -- Eagle Scout Earns Merit Badge. By David Kulczyk. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [146]- 150) And Index. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Sacramento Squatters’ Riot He Said, She Said, They Said; She Was Hanged! The Greatest Shootout in the West Auburn’s Darkest Night A Serial Lyncher Is Lynched The Lynching of an Uninvited Wedding Guest A Cold Welcome to Santa Cruz False Friends in Germantown The Lynching of Indian Charlie The Odd Fellows Serve Rough Justice on a Southerner A Hard Road into Bakersfield The Citizens of Little Lake Strike Back The Biggest Coward in Butte County Violated Trust, Trussed Up Twistin’ in the Wind in Redding Rage Against the Railroad Unhappy Days at Happy Camp Too Many Guests at the Jailhouse The Bandit with Soft Hands and a Hard Heart Pioneer Terrorists Meet the Crazed Lynch Mob Bad-Ass Jim McKinney Meets a Bad-Ass Shotgun Prohibition Mobsters “Hang Around” in Santa Rosa A Dosage of Lead Is Administered on J Street The Governor’s Mob of “Good Citizens” The Last of the California Cowboys A Bad Day at the Pool Hall The (Not So) Brite Brothers What Goes Around, Comes Around: A Whacker Is Whacket The Last Lynching in California Shootout at the Supper Club Sirhan Sirhan and the Whispering Woman in the Polka Dot Dress The Golden Dragon Massacre Warfare at City Hall Psychopaths Carry Out Some Bank Business Eagle Scout Earns Merit Badge Bibliography Index About the Author Introducing the victims and perpetrators responsible for California's most notorious shootouts, lynchings, and assassinations, this account shows how homemade justice is never black-and-white. In relating these histories, this discussion also analyzes how and why Hollywood storylines almost always follow the same skewed and unrealistic arc in which the bad guys abuse the good guys, the good guy take the high road until the bad guy has gone too far, and the good guy picks off the bad guys, one by one, in an increasingly dramatic fashion.