Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface 1. The Esmeralda Excitement 2. No Goodee Cow Man 3. Politics, the Civil War, and the Boundary 4. Robbery, Rowdyism, and Combat 5. The Daly Gang 6. The Last of the Old-Time Mining Camps 7. Violence and the Minorities 8. Women, Juveniles, and Violence 9. In Illegal Pursuit of Wealth 10. Rough and Rowdy 11. The Badmen of Bodie 12. Vigilantism 13. The Heritage of the Trans-Sierra Frontier Appendix: Scholarly Assessments of Frontier Violence Biblography Index

About the Author

Roger D. McGrath was a U.S. Marine and history professor at UCLA. He currently is at California State University-Northridge.