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Dodge City and Tombstone had nothing on the violent free-for-all in frontier Los Angeles. Long before it was known for oil, real estate and movie stars, L.A. lacked reliable law enforcement and endured decades of vigilante justice and mob rule. What began as public sanctioned retribution against murderers and gross offenders of the law, predictably spun out of control, culminating in one of the single-most horrific events of lynching in U.S. history, the Chinatown massacre of 1871.

Mr. Faragher has thoroughly researched and documented this relatively ancient period of L.A.'s brief past through numerous first-hand accounts and newspaper reports-- surprising given just how small a pueblo it was until the very end of the 1800s. Although too much time was spent chronicling the birth of the state of California, in my opinion, there was an incredible wealth of overlapping and reoccurring individuals which remarkably paints old L.A. as Small Town, U.S.A., but with all of the violent tendencies of a city on the brink of self-destruction.

Mr. Faragher amply expounds on his thesis that vigilante justice, while giving immediate gratification to the angry masses--and often incubated in the form of domestic abuse--ultimately undermines the greater potential for law & order in civil society. This is frequently represented in many of the contradictory political, journalistic and editorial voices of the day. Overall, an engaging read for anyone with an interest in this seemingly untapped historic period in an otherwise well-documented city.


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Eternity Street Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles John Mack Faragher 9780393051360 Books Reviews

I'm fascinated by early Los Angeles history, and this is a great contribution to the field. Lots of human stories that really bring history to life.
Well written account of how Los Angeles developed from a small pueblo into Wild West town and then finally into Victorian elegance but with sharp edged sides. I love reading about the history of my city and this one fit the bill.
Incredibly detailed account of the violent history of early Southern California. Endlessly fascinating. The domestic violence anecdotes are overwhelming. I especially liked the accounts of the inept American conquest of California.
Despite my three star rating, I think anyone interested in Los Angeles history should read this book. My three star rating is based on two grounds.

First, the book is not cohesively written. It is more like a series of short stories where some characters reappear.

Second, the author refers to the area of Los Angeles known as "N****** Alley" as "Negro Alley". A historian should not change names of places because of political correctness. That made me wonder what other changes were made in the interest of political correctness, since the book concerns many issues of race.

(Ironically, I had to resubmit this review because I referred to the historical place "N***** Alley", and it was rejected. Go figure...)
Good in-depth history of Los Angeles but the way the narrative jumps around in time while telling the different stories of different figures is distracting. I kept losing track of where I was in time. There are so many people's stories involved are they are all followed perhaps more than was needed, it felt like reading a history lecture by someone who keeps going off on tangents.
This is a very good account of the history of crime and violence in early Los Angeles. This era of mid-19th century L. A. is not a depiction of "LaLa Land"; it vividly describes the early village as a place where life was just as dangerous as any segment of early America was all races and segments of the population subject to sudden death by knife or gun, and revenge in the form of lynching, and a quick trip down Eternity Street to the burial ground.
Mr.Faragher uses many Spanish phrases throughout the book. Each is not only translated into English on the same line as it is first used, but also again in the index, which makes it much more understandable and readable. I liked it so much I intend to order his Daniel Boone book.
Just finished Eternity Street. It was a very interesting read, and easy to follow as the story unfolds chronologically. Living in the area brings the story that much closer to home since I knew where all of the places described were, or were approximately because the Orange/Los Angeles County areas are no longer rural and are totally built up now. Many of the Rancho Homes where events took place are still in existence, or have historical markers set out where they used to stand. The "Pueblo Of Los Angeles" is still here, although as a very reduced area around the original Plaza. There is a map of contemporary Los Angeles with all of the locations laid out on it, and also a map of LA/Orange County (Orange County was part of LA County during the time of the book) showing all of the places described.

The history unfolds like a novel in this book and keeps you interested all the way through. It's hard to believe some of the events that took place in the 1850s-'60s in the area. The Sheriff and most of his Posse were shot down in 1857 for instance, leading to one of the largest manhunts ever in California. The outlaws who perpetrated this crime were hunted down, and those who didn't "stop lead" were "jerked to eternity" when caught. This book is better than any Western, and a lot more exciting because it's the truth.

I picked up two other copies of this book to hand out as presents. I highly recommend Eternity Street to anyone interested in the Frontier/"Wild West" history of Los Angeles. It all happened out here in Los Angeles long before it happened in Dodge City, Abilene, Deadwood, or Tombstone. We just didn't hear about it as much until this book brought it all together in one history.
Dodge City and Tombstone had nothing on the violent free-for-all in frontier Los Angeles. Long before it was known for oil, real estate and movie stars, L.A. lacked reliable law enforcement and endured decades of vigilante justice and mob rule. What began as public sanctioned retribution against murderers and gross offenders of the law, predictably spun out of control, culminating in one of the single-most horrific events of lynching in U.S. history, the Chinatown massacre of 1871.

Mr. Faragher has thoroughly researched and documented this relatively ancient period of L.A.'s brief past through numerous first-hand accounts and newspaper reports-- surprising given just how small a pueblo it was until the very end of the 1800s. Although too much time was spent chronicling the birth of the state of California, in my opinion, there was an incredible wealth of overlapping and reoccurring individuals which remarkably paints old L.A. as Small Town, U.S.A., but with all of the violent tendencies of a city on the brink of self-destruction.

Mr. Faragher amply expounds on his thesis that vigilante justice, while giving immediate gratification to the angry masses--and often incubated in the form of domestic abuse--ultimately undermines the greater potential for law & order in civil society. This is frequently represented in many of the contradictory political, journalistic and editorial voices of the day. Overall, an engaging read for anyone with an interest in this seemingly untapped historic period in an otherwise well-documented city.