By the author, (1988). First edition - A history of Siskiyou County and Yreka, focusing on several notorious crimes and two lynchings - the first of four men in 1885, one of whom might have been innocent - and the second in 1935, the lynching of Clyde Johnson, the 2nd to last such event in California. Focuses on the stories of George Hall (whom the sheriff protected from lynching and who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death), Clyde Johnson and the Brite Brothers. The father of the author, Charles McMurry, was the Court Reporter in the 1930s. 313 pp.