White Justice In Arizona: Apache Murder Trials In The Nineteenth Century

CLARE V MCKANNA JR.

Publication: Texas Tech University Press, 2005, Lubbock

First edition. 8vo. Review copy with slip laid-in. Two-tone quarter cloth and paper over boards, titles stamped in white on the spine, preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, selected bibliography, index. Case studies of the 19th century murder trials of Apaches to include Captain Jack, Gonshayee, the "Carlisle Kid," and Batdish, all of which ended in conviction. The trials reveal how cultural misunderstandings, discriminatory attitudes, and the unequal application of justice shaped the treatment of Native Americans in the territorial courts. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.