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.

New York: The Viking Press, (1968) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book that should be mandatory reading for all lawmakers - arguably more significant now than when the lectures upon which this book is based were given - the Isaac Ray Award Lectures at Columbia University from 1963 to 1966. "What happens to those labeled 'criminal' is a crime in itself . . .. because it defeats its own purpose. The crime of punishment is that punishment aggravates crime." INSCRIBED by Menninger on the front free endpaper and dated in 1969. Reference notes, index. xiii, 305 pp.