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The Making of a Lynching Culture book review by Jim Potter I learned a long time ago that when horse thieves of any ethnicity or race were captured in the American Frontier, especially the American West, many met their maker at the end of a rope, hanging from a tree. I was also aware that the Ku Klux Klan terrorized people, especially Blacks, by intimidation that included lynching. Thanks to William D. Carrigan, author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in … [Read more...] about The Making of a Lynching Culture