John Mack Faragher. (2016). Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles. W. W. Norton & Company.

John Mack Faragher. 2016. Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles. W. W. Norton & Company.

John Mack Faragher, Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.

John Mack Faragher. Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.

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"[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, "a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles" (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this "groundbreaking" (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today.

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   • source: Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America;Los Angeles Times
   • content: [A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California. . . . The sheer power of these events. . . burn up these pages. . . . The insights gained may help dissect gang violence, drug violence, honor killings, witch killings — even the unseen internal disputes of the various peoples subjected to recent counter-insurgency and state-building projects.
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   • source: Elizabeth Fenn, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
   • content: Faragher's prose leaps off the page.... Eternity Street describes human beings at their worst, but this is American history at its best, conveying diligent research and thoughtful analysis in an eminently readable way.
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   • source: William Deverell, University of Southern California, author of To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds
   • content: Gripping and authoritative, this is a masterwork of scholarship and literary grace. Faragher's dark portrait of L.A. pulls no punches and asks us to consider what grim DNA yet lurks in the City of Angels.
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   • source: Stephen Aron, UCLA, author of The American West: A Very Short Introduction
   • content: In Eternity Street, John Mack Faragher has unearthed a blood-soaked history of nineteenth-century Los Angeles that blows away "Wild West" fantasies. Faragher's masterwork should be read by all who wish to understand more about the violence that has shaped the American past.
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   • source: Amy Greenberg, Penn State University, author of A Wicked War
   • content: Through chilling anecdote and skilled storytelling, John Mack Faragher explores the experience of frontier violence for L.A.'s Mexican, Anglo, Indian, Black, and Chinese residents. This may just be the true origin story for L.A. noir.
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   • source: Elliott West, University of Arkansas, author of The Last Indian War
   • content: Eternity Street will be an enduring landmark. Faragher's stories are not happy ones, but they are ones we need to remember if we hope to embrace the West's full history and cope with the legacy that continues to bedevil us.
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   • source: Richard Wightman Fox, University of Southern California, author of Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
   • content: John Mack Faragher is one fine writer, bringing early L.A. to life as the setting for all manner of horrific killings and gruesome justice. Eternity Street will keep you up at night ruminating on the roots of American violence.
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     November 9, 2015
     Faragher (Out of Many), a professor of history at Yale and a Southern California native, skillfully explores the history of California and Los Angeles during the middle of the 19th century. Following California’s establishment of statehood in 1850, Los Angeles “was one of the most violent towns in America.” Fascinated with court records and old newspapers, and taking for granted the violence of the frontier, Faragher devotes his attention to investigating “the structure, the culture, and the reproduction” of that violence, as well as the meaning it held. The greater Los Angeles area circa 1830 was an agricultural region of fewer than 3,000 people where Spanish-speaking, predominantly Catholic landowners (Californios) ruled a turbulent underclass of emancipados (converted natives) and a sprinkling of migrants. California’s government in distant Monterey was feeble; central authority in Mexico City was feebler still, making “outlaw justice” the norm. Matters hardly improved after the U.S.’s 1848 conquest, when U.S. laws and immigrants provided another source of conflict. The book begins with a murder and closes with another at the turn of the century, when increasing confidence in the legal system modestly reduced violence. The tireless violence Faragher chronicles may weary some readers, but persistence is rewarded with a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles. Maps & photos.

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