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      AUTHOR: McKanna, Clare V., Jr.
       TITLE: Alcohol, handguns, and homicide in the American West: a tale
              of three counties, 1880-1920.
      SOURCE: The Western Historical Quarterly v. 26 (Winter '95) p. 455-82
   ABSTRACTS: A discussion of lethal violence in the American West from 1880
              to 1920.  The writer explores the interrelationships between a
              variety of factors and their effects on homicide rates by
              examining the criminal records in Douglas County, Nebraska;
              Las Animas County, Colorado; and Gila County, Arizona.  He
              argues that lethal violence levels in the three counties
              denote social instability.  Such a condition was created, he
              contends, by rapid population growth, ethnic diversity,
              alcohol, gun culture, and the boomtown effect in mining
              communities. He shows that the existence of social instability
              appeared as a "subculture of violence" within African-American
              society in Douglas County and a more pervasive "regional
              culture of violence" within Las Animas and Gila counties.  He
              maintains that these data prove that lethal violence was
              common in the American West.
 STANDARD NO: 0043-3810
        DATE: 1995
       PLACE: United States
    LANGUAGE: English
 RECORD TYPE: art
    CONTENTS: feature article
     SUBJECT: Social sciences - Comparative studies.
              Homicide.
              Violence - United States.
              Social history - Methodology - Statistical methods.
              Crime and criminals - Western States - History.
 
 
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