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Deadly neighbours : a tale of colonialism, cattle feuds, murder and vigilantes in the far west /

On a cold night in February, 1884, just meters north of the border on Sumas Prairie, British Columbia, an Indigenous boy named Louie Sam was lynched by a mob of mounted vigilantes. The vigilantes had ridden up from Nooksack Valley in Washington Territory, hell-bent on avenging the murder of one of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reimer, Chad (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Qualicum Beach, British Columbia : Caitlin Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Sam, Louie, > -1884.
Lynching > British Columbia > History > 19th century.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.) > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Cattle barons and upstarts
  • Missing-presumed dead
  • Perverting justice
  • A hard crowd
  • Who killed James Bell?
  • The lynching of Louie Sam
  • Vigilantes and conspirators
  • The torture of Jimmy Poole
  • A fight for justice
  • Separate fates.