Lynching was fairly common in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington before the Wobblies ever came along.  Professor Michael J. Pfeifer of Evergreen State College, Olympia, Wa.  presented a paper at the Conference on Lynching and Racial Violence at Emory University in Atlanta in Oct. 2002.  I was long retired before this conference, but read the paper online.  

 http://academic.evergreen.edu/p/pfeiferm/lynchinglawandregion.html

Joanne

       
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