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Vigilante newspapers :

Baldasty, Gerald J.

Vigilante newspapers : a tale of sex, religion, and murder in the Northwest / Gerald J. Baldasty. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Collision course -- The shame of Corvallis -- Weak women -- The press proclaims a hero -- Defending George Mitchell -- Second thoughts -- Unforgiven -- News and values -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

A powerful and instructive story of how intolerant and sensational newspapers in Corvallis and Seattle encouraged vigilante violence, murder, and lawlessness toward and Oregon religious cult.

ISBN: 9780295990309 0295990309

Standard No.: 2231402

Source: 22573/ctvct8572 JSTOR

Subjects--Personal Names:
Creffield, Edmund, 1867?-1906.
Mitchell, George 1883?-1906.
Creffield, Edmund, 1867?-1906.
Mitchell, George 1883?-1906.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Church of the Bride of Christ.
Church of the Bride of Christ.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Newspapers--Objectivity.
Religion and the press--Oregon.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.
Newspapers--Objectivity.
Religion and the press.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Oregon.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic book.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BP605.C546 / B35 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 979.5/34