Moses (history, U. of Montana-Billings) considers lynching and vigilantism together because they are both examples of punishment of real or alleged miscreants by non-governmental groups that sometimes, but not always, overlap. He describes with a brief phrase over 4,000 scholarly, popular, religious, and polemic works, both contemporary and later, on conditions and events from colonial times through 1996; general studies; works on the frontier west through 1890; anti-lynching bills, laws, organizations, and leaders; prose fiction, poems, ballads, and films; and works of art, including cartoons. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.