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Blood Vessels: Vigilante Violence in the American West reveals the web of human movement, exchange, and collision that bound together these seemingly unrelated incidents of extralegal violent action. Exposing the direct human connections linking these episodes, Patrick T. Hoehne reframes the prevailing understanding of both the individual incidents of violent action and the larger history of vigilante violence in the antebellum United States.

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“Few have looked hard at extralegal collective violence in the antebellum Midwest and West. And yet these were key places where patterns of American lynching violence emerged. Hoehne has mined the archives carefully, while his argument and deep social lens are innovative. Blood Vessels will make a major contribution to the field.”—Michael Pfeifer, author of Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South “Hoehne uncovers hitherto unknown kinship connections that transmitted a particular strain of extralegal collective violence across the prairies and plains in the two decades prior to the Civil War. These so-called ‘Banditti’ networks and vigilantism among settlers have rarely been centered in the history of American violence.”—Jonathan Obert, author of The Six-Shooter State: Public and Private Violence in American Politics

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Patrick Hoehne is a historian of violence in the nineteenth-century United States.

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