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Details of a lynching in New Mexico...
Details of a lynching in New Mexico...
Item # 682307
February 10, 1880
THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, Feb. 10, 1880 The front page has a report headed: "Triple Lynching Affair" from Las Vegas, New Mexico, noting in part: "The cow boys...implicated in the shooting of Carson...were dragged from their cells this morning by a mob of 75 armed men...victims were dragged to the central plaza & ropes were thrown over the beams...West was hauled up and strangled...in a short time Dorsey & Henry were riddled with balls..." and more.
Eight pages, a bit irregular at the spine from disbinding, good condition.
Category: The Old West
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