A Story of Vigilantism in the Twin Territories and State of Oklahoma from 1830

A Story of Vigilantism in the Twin Territories and State of Oklahoma from 1830 - 1930.

By Charles Clark

Mary Nelson and her Son, L.D. Lynched on May 25, 1911. Okemah, Okfuskee County

Lynchings in Oklahoma is a history that covers the early days of frontier vigilantism in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories when the law was as scarce as civilization. After statehood, the practice became a tool for racial hatred and political dogma based on the philosophy of Jim Crowism. The book covers approximately one hundred years of lynchings beginning in 1832 with the lynching of Uncle Joe, a slave, when he killed his master's son-in-law for attacking him with a bullwhip, and ending with the lynching of Henry Argo in 1930 in Chickasha when he was falsely accused of molesting a white woman.

On CD-ROM Reader is included. Sold at the Book Stall bookstores in Norman and Lawton. Priced at $15.00, or purchase a copy at cnclark1959@aol.com add $2.50 for p/h.